| 1986 - | There was a terrorist bomb explosion in Oxford Street, London |
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| 1985 - | Israel began the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon |
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| 1981 - | The IBM Personal Computer was introduced. |
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| 1974 - | Bud Abbott, the US comedian of Abbott & Costello fame, died |
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| 1970 - | China became the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit |
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| 1961 - | General de Gaulle of France ordered a blockade of Algeria |
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| 1953 - | Winston Churchill was made a Knight of the Garter by the Queen |
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| 1949 - | Sweet rationing in the UK, introduced because of the war, ended |
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| 1941 - | Empire forces began withdrawing from Greece |
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| 1916 - | The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, Ireland |
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| 1910 - | German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms |
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| 1909 - | Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
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| 1908 - | Mr and Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m |
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| 1905 - | 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 and 28) |
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| 1905 - | Senators execute a triple-play and beat Yankees 4-3 |
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| 1901 - | 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out |
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| 1900 - | Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer |
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| 1900 - | The Daily Express newspaper was published for the first time |
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| 1899 - | Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician and pioneer in commutative algebra, was born |
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