| 1981 - | Lord Scarman headed the enquiry into the Brixton riots |
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| 1970 - | The American spacecraft Apollo 13, enroute to the Moon, had an onboard explosion |
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| 1967 - | Conservative councillors gained a landslide victory in the GLC elections |
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| 1964 - | Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar for best actor |
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| 1963 - | Gary Kasparov, Russian chess player, was born |
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| 1963 - | Ian Smith became the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) |
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| 1962 - | An international agreement was signed, to stop oil pollution of seas & beaches |
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| 1919 - | The Amritsar Massacre took place in the Punjab, India |
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| 1912 - | The Royal Flying Corps was created by Royal Charter |
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| 1911 - | Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames |
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| 1908 - | Groundbreaking on Philadelphias Shibe Park (home of As and Phillies) |
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| 1906 - | Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos and Vasco da Gama |
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| 1904 - | Battle at Oviumbo Africa |
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| 1904 - | Congress authorizes Lewis and Clark Expo $1 gold coin |
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| 1902 - | J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyo |
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| 1829 - | The British Parliament passed the Catholic Emancipation Act |
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| 1771 - | Richard Trevithick, English engineer, was born |
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| 1668 - | John Dryden became the first ever Poet Laureate |
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