| 1983 - | The first cordless telephone went on sale in Britain |
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| 1983 - | The first cordless telephones went on sale in the UK |
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| 1981 - | The first space shuttle, Columbia, was successfully launched |
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| 1931 - | The first Highway Code guide was published in Britain |
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| 1929 - | The first ever Monaco Grand Prix was held |
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| 1912 - | The liner 'Titanic' struck an ice berg at 11.40pm, and began to sink |
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| 1910 - | President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day |
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| 1909 - | Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London |
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| 1906 - | Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces muckrakers in US press |
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| 1904 - | George Bernard Shaws Candida, premiered in London |
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| 1903 - | Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC) |
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| 1902 - | JC Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo |
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| 1902 - | Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium |
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| 1900 - | President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris |
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| 1900 - | Veterans Hospital at Ft Miley forms |
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| 1759 - | George Frederick Handel, the English composer, died |
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| 1629 - | Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer and physicist, was born |
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