| 1994 - | Disgraced US president Richard Nixon died of a stroke, aged 81 |
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| 1984 - | The United States announced the discovery of the AIDS virus |
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| 1979 - | One person was killed, & many were injured, in clashes between N.F & Anti-Nazi league |
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| 1968 - | Britain`s first decimal coins, the 5p and 10p, were issued in preparation for decimalization |
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| 1968 - | The first decimal coins, the 5p & 10p, were issued |
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| 1967 - | Vladimir Komarov became the first man to make two spaceflights |
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| 1965 - | The USSR launched its first communications satellite |
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| 1961 - | The National Census day took place in Britain |
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| 1910 - | International Exhibition opens in Brussels |
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| 1908 - | Denmark, Germany, Engld, France, Neth and Sweden signs North Sea accord |
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| 1904 - | American Academy of Arts and Letters forms |
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| 1903 - | NY Highlanders (Yankees) win their 1st game beating Wash Senators 7-2 |
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| 1900 - | 1st know occurrence of word hillbillie (NY Journal) |
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| 1858 - | Max Planck, German physicist, was born |
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| 1661 - | King Charles II was crowned the King of Great Britain & Ireland |
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| 1616 - | William Shakespeare, the famous English playwright, died |
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| 1615 - | Christians in France were forbidden, under pain of death, to shelter or converse with Jews, by order of Louis XIII |
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