| 1984 - | The Dutch parliament decided to delay installing US cruise missiles by two years |
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| 1982 - | A ceasefire was agreeed in the Falkland conflict |
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| 1981 - | The French Socialist Party won a landslide vote |
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| 1967 - | The American Mariner 5 spacecraft was launched to the planet Venus |
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| 1965 - | The military took over in South Vietnam |
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| 1964 - | Nelson Mandella was sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa |
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| 1962 - | The European Space Research Organisation was established at Paris |
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| 1962 - | Thirty people were arrested in plan to kill the French leader De Gaulle |
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| 1946 - | John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor who developed television, died |
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| 1940 - | German troops entered the French capital, Paris |
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| 1907 - | Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers |
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| 1907 - | Norway restricts womans voting rights |
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| 1906 - | Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia |
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| 1904 - | Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants |
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| 1901 - | 1st golf championship is played |
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| 1900 - | Hawaiian Territorial Government begins |
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| 1736 - | Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist, was born |
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