| 1986 - | Sport Aid, helping to raise money for the starving in Africa, took place |
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| 1961 - | President Kennedy announced the plan to send men to the Moon |
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| 1953 - | Road transport was denationalised in Britain |
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| 1945 - | Arthur C.Clark suggested using relay satellites to cover the Earth |
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| 1935 - | Athlete Jesse Owens set six world records in under an hour |
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| 1914 - | The Irish Home Rule bill was passed |
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| 1911 - | Revolution in M‚xico overthrows President Jos‚ Porfirio Diaz |
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| 1910 - | French troops occupied Morocco, North Africa |
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| 1907 - | The first national assembly, in which women had parliamentary seats, opened in Finland |
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| 1906 - | After 20 straight wins, Boston Pilgrims lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0 |
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| 1904 - | 38th Belmont |
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| 1900 - | Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics |
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| 1768 - | Explorer Captain Cook set sail on his first voyage |
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| 1703 - | Samuel Pepys, the English diarist, died |
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| 1648 - | Chmielnicki's pogroms, which resulted in the massacre of more than 300,000 Jews, broke out |
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| 1555 - | Regnier Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician who applied his expertise to geography, astronomy and map making, died |
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