| 1994 - | The IRA fired motar bombs at Heathrow airport, but they failed to explode |
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| 1987 - | Bobby Locke, the well known South African golfer, died |
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| 1961 - | Russian dog Laika was launched into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik 9 |
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| 1946 - | 33 people died & four hundred were injured when barriers collapsed at an FA cup game at Bolton, Lancashire |
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| 1943 - | Bobby Fischer, US chess champion, was born |
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| 1934 - | Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, the first man in space, was born |
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| 1932 - | Eamon de Valera was elected President of the republic of Ireland |
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| 1907 - | 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana |
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| 1907 - | Lady Gregorys Rising of the Moon, premieres in Dublin |
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| 1904 - | Brandons Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal |
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| 1902 - | Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna |
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| 1876 - | Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent for the first telephone |
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| 1862 - | The first battle between iron clad warships took place, during the American Civil War |
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| 1831 - | King Louis Philippe founded the French Foreign Legion |
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| 1796 - | French leader Napoleon Bonaparte married Josephine |
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