| 1978 - | The musical 'Evita' opened in London |
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| 1973 - | Nixon & Brezhnev signed an arms limitation agreement |
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| 1956 - | East Germany announced the release of 19,000 political prisoners |
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| 1945 - | A new communist government in Poland was established |
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| 1937 - | Wimbledon was televised for the first time |
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| 1919 - | The captured German fleet, at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, was scuttled |
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| 1908 - | The composer Rimsky Korsakov died |
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| 1907 - | 13th US Golf Open |
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| 1907 - | E W Scripps founded United Press |
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| 1904 - | Boston Herald tells of Red Sox trade Dougherty as a Yankee, 1st known reference to NY club as Yankees (became Yankees in 1913) |
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| 1903 - | Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Mazarine Stone takes place (BG) |
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| 1900 - | Dodgers score 7 in top of 11th to go ahead of Phillies, 20-13, In bottom of 11th Phillies stalls so umpire forfeits game to Dodgers |
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| 1827 - | Robert Peel made major redforms to the English criminal law |
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| 1813 - | Wellington defeated the French forces at Vitoria |
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| 1781 - | Siméon Denis Poisson, French mathematician, was born. In over 300 publications his work spanned statistics, heat and electric potential. |
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