| 1987 - | A 'Hands across Britain' demonstration was held against unemployment |
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| 1979 - | A General Election took place in Britain; Conservative victory |
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| 1956 - | Granada television made its first broadcast |
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| 1951 - | King George VI opened the Festival of Britain |
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| 1949 - | A ten nations conference in London formed the Council of Europe |
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| 1909 - | 35th Kentucky Derby |
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| 1906 - | British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey |
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| 1906 - | The Sinai peninsula became Egyptian territory |
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| 1903 - | AVC Heracles (SC Heracles 74) soccer team forms in Almelo |
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| 1902 - | 28th Kentucky Derby |
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| 1901 - | Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida |
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| 1900 - | 26th Kentucky Derby |
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| 1860 - | John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, was born |
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| 1841 - | New Zealand became a British colony |
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