| 1987 - | Prison officers were held hostage at Magilligan Prison, Northern Ireland |
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| 1986 - | A terrorist bomb exploded in a Berlin disco |
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| 1984 - | BBC 1 went off the air, blacked out by an industrial dispute |
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| 1982 - | A British Naval Task Force left for the Falkland Islands, which had been invaded by Argentina |
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| 1981 - | The Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev went to Czechoslovakia to discuss Polish crisis |
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| 1976 - | Harold Wilson, of the Labour Party, resigned as Prime Minister |
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| 1975 - | Howard Hughes, the American multi-millionaire, died |
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| 1964 - | Automatic, driverless trains began operating on the London Underground, UK |
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| 1960 - | The film epic 'Ben Hur', with Charlton Heston, won a total of ten Oscars |
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| 1955 - | The Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigned |
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| 1923 - | George Herbert, earl of Carnarvon, British Egyptologist, died |
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| 1911 - | MCC tour match v Jamaica finishes in a tie |
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| 1911 - | Waldorf W Aster acquires Daily Observer |
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| 1910 - | Kissing was banned on the French railway system |
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| 1908 - | British premier Henry Campbell-Bannerman resigns |
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| 1906 - | St Pius X encyclical On the Mariavites or Mystic Priests of Poland |
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| 1905 - | James Barries Alice-sit-by-the-fire, premieres in London |
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| 1902 - | Maurice Ravels Pavane pour une infante defunte, premieres in Paris |
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| 1902 - | Soccer match riot between Scotland and England kills 25 |
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| 1900 - | Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails |
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