| 1992 - | Isaac Asimov, US scientist, died |
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| 1985 - | President Numeiri of the Sudan was deposed |
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| 1983 - | Ian Smith, the ex prime minister of Rhodesia, was granted a British passport |
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| 1982 - | The UK banned all Argentinian imports after the invasion of the Falklands |
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| 1973 - | The spacecraft Pioneer 11 was launched to the planets Jupiter & Saturn |
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| 1965 - | Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite, was launched by the US |
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| 1965 - | The worlds first commercial communication satellite, Early Bird, was launched |
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| 1961 - | Jules Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist, died |
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| 1944 - | The income tax system 'Pay As You Earn', devised by Cornelius Gregg, was introduced |
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| 1917 - | The United States entered World War I |
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| 1912 - | Electric starter 1st appeared in cars |
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| 1909 - | 1st credit union forms in US |
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| 1909 - | North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson |
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| 1909 - | US explorer Robert Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole |
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| 1909 - | The North Pole was reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary |
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| 1906 - | 1st animated cartoon copyrighted |
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| 1903 - | General railroad strike against worgwetten (anti-strike laws) |
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| 1900 - | James J Jeffries KOs Jack Finnegan in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1896 - | The first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece |
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| 1830 - | The Mormon church was founded in the United States |
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| 1580 - | In Britain, an earth tremor damaged several London churches, including the old St Paul`s Cathedral |
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