| 1995 - | Prime Minister John Major resigned as leader of the Conservatie Party |
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| 1990 - | Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin was officially removed |
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| 1984 - | The first ever Virgin Atlantic flight took place |
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| 1980 - | The Soviet Union began removing troops from Afghanistan |
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| 1978 - | Pluto's moon, Charon, was discovered by James Christy |
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| 1941 - | Battle of Britain - the RAF shot down 26 Nazi planes during the day |
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| 1940 - | The French signed an armistice at Compiegne |
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| 1911 - | King George V of England crowned |
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| 1910 - | 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland |
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| 1910 - | The first passengers were carried on the Zeppelin airship |
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| 1907 - | In Britain, the Northern Line was opened on the London Underground |
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| 1906 - | Hakon VII crowned king of Norway |
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| 1897 - | Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee |
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| 1896 - | Marconi patented the wireless |
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