| 1994 - | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
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| 1990 - | An earthquake struck the main Philippine island of Luzon, killing over 1,500 people |
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| 1970 - | Britain had a state of emergency when dockers went on strike |
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| 1969 - | Apollo 11, which made the first manned Moon landing, was launched |
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| 1965 - | The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, opened |
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| 1945 - | The first atomic bomb, developed by Robert Oppenheimer and his team at Los Alamos, was exploded in New Mexico |
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| 1942 - | The RAF carried out its first daylight raid on the Ruhr, Germany |
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| 1935 - | Parking meters were used for the first time in the United States |
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| 1918 - | Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, and his family were executed |
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| 1909 - | Det and Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings |
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| 1904 - | Islands of Manua group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs |
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| 1902 - | John McGraw named manager of NY Giants |
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| 1902 - | Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford |
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| 1661 - | The Bank of Stockholm issued Europe's first bank notes |
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