| 1992 - | Czechoslovakia was split into two separate states |
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| 1990 - | A new currency unit, the Ecu, was proposed by Chancellor John Major |
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| 1986 - | The movement of sheep was banned after they ate grass contaminated by fallout from Chernobyl |
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| 1984 - | A new exam, called GCSE, replaced the existing O levels |
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| 1960 - | A woman read the BBC national news for the first time |
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| 1958 - | The London bus strike ended after seven weeks |
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| 1914 - | The German warship Bismark was launched |
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| 1911 - | NAACP incorporates (NY) |
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| 1910 - | Krazy Kat comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal |
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| 1909 - | 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring) |
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| 1907 - | 1st Portland Rose festival |
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| 1901 - | Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college |
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| 1895 - | The 'Doctor of Science' award was given to a woman for the first time |
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| 1873 - | Alfred Loewy, German mathematician who worked on linear groups, the algebraic theory of differential equations and actuarial mathematics, was born |
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