| 1983 - | Syria expelled the PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
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| 1982 - | The first Frenchman was launched into orbit, as part of Soviet mission |
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| 1981 - | The first ever traffic crossed the new Humber bridge |
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| 1978 - | The North Yemen President was assassinated |
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| 1956 - | Colonel Nasser became the President of Egypt |
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| 1911 - | 17th US Golf Open |
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| 1910 - | 50th British Golf Open |
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| 1909 - | 15th US Golf Open |
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| 1909 - | William Penney British physicist, was born |
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| 1908 - | Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276) |
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| 1903 - | Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist |
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| 1901 - | 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris |
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| 1901 - | Jewish National Fund starts |
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| 1900 - | Dutch Social-Democratic Workers party and Socialistenbond merge |
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| 1878 - | The St John Ambulance Association was formed |
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| 1314 - | Robert the Bruce defeated the English at the battle of Bannockburn |
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