| 1989 - | The West Midlands Serious Crime Squad was disbanded |
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| 1986 - | The US Justice Department announced that employees with AIDS could be fired |
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| 1973 - | The Pope opened the vatican gallery of modern art |
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| 1968 - | A stampede at an Argentinian football match left 73 dead |
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| 1962 - | A ceasefire in Laos, Asia, was announced |
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| 1956 - | Colonel Nasser was elected as President in Egypt |
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| 1951 - | British diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two soviet spies, fled to the USSR |
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| 1912 - | Alan Mathison Turing, English mathematician, computer pioneer and codebreaker, was born |
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| 1911 - | King George V of Britain was crowned |
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| 1909 - | Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections |
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| 1902 - | Gioacchino Rossinis unveils monument to Santa-Croce |
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| 1848 - | The saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax |
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