| 1981 - | A terrosist bomb exploded at the Sullom Voe oil terminal, during a visit by the King of Norway |
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| 1949 - | The first British laundrette opened in London |
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| 1947 - | The World Bank opened in Washington, United States |
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| 1940 - | The RAF began night bombing raids on targest in Germany |
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| 1928 - | Catholics & Protestant Nonconformists were allowed to hold public office in Britain |
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| 1922 - | The Egyptian governmant became the countries only leagal trader in opium, cocaine & hashish |
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| 1914 - | An earthquake struck Sicily, killing over a hundred people |
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| 1911 - | Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland |
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| 1908 - | Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname |
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| 1908 - | Winston Churchill was elected as an MP for the first time |
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| 1901 - | Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne |
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| 1901 - | Cleves Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2 |
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| 1887 - | Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opened in London |
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| 1873 - | Howard Carter, British Egyptologist, was born |
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| 1850 - | Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist, died |
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