| 1985 - | Sinn Fein won its first seats in the Northern Ireland local elections |
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| 1983 - | The London police began using wheel clamps on illegally parked cars |
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| 1979 - | LEA's no longer had to run schools along Comprehensive lines |
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| 1966 - | British seamen went on strike |
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| 1963 - | The US astronaut Gordon Cooper made 22 orbits of the Earth |
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| 1943 - | The famous RAF 'dambusters' raid took place |
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| 1929 - | The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) were held |
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| 1920 - | Switzerland joined the League of Nations |
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| 1911 - | Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK |
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| 1911 - | Zeppelin Deutscheland wrecked at Dusseldorf |
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| 1910 - | US Bureau of Mines forms |
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| 1903 - | 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann) |
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| 1903 - | George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US |
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| 1902 - | 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3 |
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| 1901 - | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Priory School (BG) |
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| 1821 - | Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev, Russian mathematician who never married and lived alone in a large house with ten rooms, was born |
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| 1804 - | Napoleon was declared Emperor of France |
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| 1770 - | The Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette were married |
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