| 1994 - | Soccer star Bobby Charlton was knighted by the Queen |
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| 1987 - | The Conservative Party won their third consecutive victory in the General Election |
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| 1986 - | A Tel Aviv synagogue was destroyed in clashes with rival jewish factions |
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| 1979 - | John Wayne, the famous Hollywood actor, died |
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| 1972 - | Libya admitted to helping the IRA in Ulster |
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| 1965 - | The 'Beatles' were included in Queens birthday honours list |
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| 1959 - | The hovercraft was demonstrated for the first time |
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| 1911 - | Tigers trailing White Sox 13-1 come back to win 16-15 |
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| 1911 - | UNIA founded by Garvey |
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| 1907 - | Northants all out for 12 v Gloucestershire |
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| 1905 - | Penns Railroad debuts fastest train in world (NY-Chicago in 18 hrs) |
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| 1904 - | Cubs Bob Wicker no-hits NY Giants, wins in 12th on 1 hitter, 1-0 |
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| 1904 - | German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa |
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| 1901 - | Cook Islands annexed and proclaimed part of New Zealand |
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| 1900 - | -12] Battle at Diamond Hill |
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| 1881 - | Hilda Phoebe Hudson, English mathematician who received an OBE for her work on Cremona transformations in plane and space, was born |
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| 1727 - | George I became the new King of England |
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