| 1983 - | The Pope asked the Polish authorities to lift Martial Law |
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| 1982 - | General Galtieri was deposed as the leader of Argentina after the Falklands conflict |
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| 1970 - | The Polaroid camera was patented |
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| 1967 - | China exploded its first H-bomb |
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| 1953 - | Soviet tanks were deployed against rioting East Germans |
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| 1946 - | A war crime trial, for Emperor Hirohito of Japan, began |
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| 1944 - | Iceland became an independent republic |
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| 1911 - | Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms |
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| 1911 - | There was a massive Suffraget march through London |
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| 1832 - | William Crookes, English chemist, was born |
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| 1823 - | The waterproof material for raincoats was patented by Charles Macintosh |
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