| 1989 - | Singer Cliff Richard released his 100th single |
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| 1971 - | Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit Mars, was launched |
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| 1967 - | Claude Rains, the British born film actor, died |
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| 1948 - | The British Citizen Act came into force |
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| 1946 - | Bread rationing began in Britain |
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| 1942 - | The RAF mounted a 1000-bomber raid on the German city of Cologne |
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| 1935 - | Pakistan was struck by a severe earthquake |
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| 1934 - | Nazis began the open trials of alleged communists |
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| 1911 - | 1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH) |
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| 1910 - | 44th Belmont |
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| 1909 - | National Conference on the Negro is held |
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| 1909 - | Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv |
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| 1908 - | 1st federal workmens compensation law approved |
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| 1908 - | 42nd Belmont |
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| 1908 - | Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System |
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| 1908 - | Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane |
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| 1908 - | US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized |
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| 1907 - | 41st Belmont |
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| 1906 - | 40th Belmont |
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| 1904 - | Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader |
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| 1903 - | 28th Preakness |
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| 1901 - | Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated |
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| 1901 - | Memorial Day 1st observed in US |
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| 1842 - | An assassination attempt was made on Queen Victoria |
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| 1814 - | Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician who published extensively on continued fractions and number theory, was born |
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| 1536 - | King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour |
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