| 1991 - | Bangladesh was struck by a cyclone, making more than 100,000 people homeless |
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| 1980 - | Alfred Hitchcock, the famous American director, died |
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| 1965 - | Plans were announced to send Australian troops to Vietnam |
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| 1945 - | The German armed foces in Italy surrended to the allies |
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| 1933 - | Numbered shirts were used for the first time in an FA Cup final |
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| 1913 - | The modern form of the zip fastener was patented |
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| 1910 - | Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam |
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| 1905 - | 2 rain falls in 10 mins in Taylor, TX |
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| 1905 - | Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon |
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| 1903 - | Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta) |
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| 1901 - | 27th Kentucky Derby |
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| 1901 - | Anti semitic riot in Budapest |
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| 1884 - | Oxford University allowed women students into examinations for the first time |
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| 1854 - | Jules Henri Poincaré, French mathematician who applied mathematics to the study of optics, electricity, telegraphy, capillarity, elasticity, thermodynamics, potential theory, quantum theory, theory of relativity and cosmology, was born |
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| 1429 - | The seige of Orleans was lifted by Joan of Arc |
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