| 1990 - | The official removal of the Berlin Wall began |
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| 1989 - | Sprinter Ben Johnson admitted to using steroids |
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| 1983 - | Roy Jenkins resigned as the leader of the SDP |
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| 1983 - | Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to leave the solar system |
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| 1982 - | Saudi Arabian King Khalid died |
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| 1982 - | Argentine forces surrendered to the British in the Falklands conflict |
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| 1981 - | A youth fired blanks at the Queen, during Trooping the Colour |
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| 1971 - | Francois Mitterrand was named as head of Socialist Party |
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| 1950 - | The White assembly decided to split South Africa into white & black areas |
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| 1944 - | The first flying bomb was dropped on London, UK |
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| 1944 - | The first German V1 flying bomb landed on England |
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| 1931 - | Jesse Boot, English pharmacist, drug manufacturer, and philanthropist, died |
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| 1910 - | Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila |
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| 1910 - | William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia |
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| 1908 - | Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1907 - | Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif |
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| 1905 - | NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0 |
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| 1902 - | Prussian Upper house gives 350 million marks to Poland |
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| 1900 - | Chinas Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians |
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