| 1983 - | Mr Andropov was elected the President of the Soviet Union |
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| 1981 - | An alliaince between the Liberals and the SDP was announced |
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| 1977 - | Britain broke all diplomatic links with Uganda |
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| 1976 - | Race riots in South Africa left six people dead |
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| 1972 - | Burglars were caught inside the Watergate building, which caused the downfall of President Nixon |
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| 1963 - | Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space |
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| 1951 - | The People's Party was founded in India |
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| 1948 - | Marcel Louis Brillouin, French mathematician, died. His 200 research papers spanned the kinetic theory of gases, viscosity, thermodynamics, melting conditions and electricity, the stability of aircraft and atomic structure |
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| 1948 - | Double yellow lines were used for the first time on British roads |
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| 1909 - | 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
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| 1909 - | Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 2-Apr win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals |
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| 1904 - | Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyces Ulysses) |
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| 1903 - | 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory Jan-00 over White Sox |
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| 1903 - | Ford Motors incorporates |
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| 1903 - | Pepsi Cola company forms |
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