| 1984 - | A new world record distance for flying a microlight aircraft was set at 340 miles |
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| 1974 - | Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for her role in the film 'A Touch of Class' |
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| 1966 - | Luna 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve orbit around the Moon |
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| 1947 - | 'BUPA', the private health care service, began in the UK |
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| 1933 - | The first ever flight over Mount Everest was completed by four Britons |
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| 1911 - | Harry James Smith Mrs Bumsted-Leigh, premieres in NYC |
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| 1910 - | Highest mountain in North America, Alaskas Mt McKinley climbed |
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| 1908 - | Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs |
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| 1892 - | Hans Rademacher, German mathematician who made important contributions to real analysis and measure theory, complex analysis, geometry, and numerical analysis, was born |
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| 1882 - | Jesse James, the American outlaw, was shot in the back by a former friend, Robert Ford |
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| 1860 - | In the United States, the Pony Express mail delivery system began |
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| 1721 - | Robert Walpole was elected as Britains first Prime Minister |
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