| 1993 - | Rebecca Stephens became the first British woman to climb Mount Everest |
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| 1987 - | Thirty seven Americans on the USS Stark were killed by an Iraqi missile |
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| 1973 - | The Senate Select Committee hearings on Watergate opened |
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| 1961 - | Guildford Catherderal was consecrated |
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| 1940 - | The Belgian government moved to Ostend because of invading German forces |
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| 1939 - | Sweden, Norway & Finland rejected Germany's non-aggression pact |
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| 1911 - | 36th Preakness |
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| 1910 - | Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins |
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| 1909 - | White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
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| 1906 - | Switzerlands Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic |
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| 1905 - | Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 3-May in baseball |
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| 1904 - | Maurice Ravels Sh‚h‚razade, premieres in Paris |
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| 1903 - | Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 2-Sep in Columbus Ohio |
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| 1900 - | British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony) |
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| 1900 - | The British troops at Mafeking were relieved after holding out against Boer forces |
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| 1899 - | Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Victoria & Albert museum |
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| 1890 - | The first weekly comic was published, in London |
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| 1749 - | Edward Jenner, English pioneer of vaccination, was born |
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