| 1991 - | The Soviet government began allowing citizens to leave the country if they wished |
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| 1990 - | An estimated 2 million people across China protested against Martial Law |
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| 1986 - | British Rail announced major staff cutbacks in its engineering works |
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| 1985 - | The House of Commons agreed to consider Sunday Trading proposals |
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| 1978 - | The US launched Pioneer Venus 1, which produced radar maps of Venus |
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| 1956 - | The first hydrogen bomb was tested on Bikini Atoll, in the Pacific |
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| 1946 - | The bill, nationalising british coal mines, passed its Commons stage |
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| 1944 - | An assassination attempt was made on Hitler by his own officers |
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| 1941 - | German air-borne forces invaded the island of Crete |
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| 1927 - | Britain recognised the independence of Saudi Arabia |
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| 1911 - | Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts v Sussex |
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| 1910 - | Funeral for Britains King Edward VII |
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| 1902 - | Cuba gains independence from Spain |
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| 1902 - | US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends |
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| 1900 - | 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months) |
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| 1861 - | Henry Seely White, US mathematician who worked on invariant theory, the geometry of curves and surfaces, algebraic curves and twisted curves was born. He died on his birthday in 1943. |
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