| 1991 - | Boris Yeltsin was elected the President of the new Russian Republic |
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| 1989 - | MP's voted to allow television cameras into the House Of Commons |
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| 1988 - | A study found cars to be a worldwide air pollution threat |
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| 1987 - | Margaret Thatcher won her third election in a row |
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| 1987 - | Students and police clashed in Seoul, South Korea |
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| 1979 - | The first ever Channel crossing by a pedal powered plane took place |
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| 1965 - | The Beatles received MBE's in the Queens Birthday Honours |
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| 1944 - | The first V1 rocket fell on England during World War 2 |
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| 1938 - | Severe flooding of China's Yellow river killed thousands |
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| 1922 - | Insulin was patented |
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| 1910 - | PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle |
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| 1909 - | Shine On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1 |
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| 1908 - | Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours (NYC) |
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| 1907 - | Yanks commit 11 errors and lose 14-6 to Tigers |
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| 1903 - | Niagara Falls, Ontario incorporated as a city |
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| 1900 - | German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power |
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| 1577 - | Paul Guldin, Swiss goldsmith, Jesuit priest and mathematician whose work defined the concept of the centre of gravity, was born |
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