| 1994 - | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
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| 1984 - | Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space |
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| 1967 - | Major defense cuts were announced, along with troop withdrawls in Egypt |
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| 1936 - | The Spanish Civil war began with an army revolt against the government |
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| 1923 - | Women in Britain were given equal divorce rights with men |
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| 1921 - | John Glenn, US astronaut and politician, was born |
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| 1919 - | The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, was unveiled |
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| 1907 - | Florenz Ziegfelds Follies of 1907, premieres in NYC |
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| 1907 - | French troops occupy Casablanca |
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| 1892 - | Thomas Cook, the travel agent pioneer, died |
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| 1817 - | Jane Austin, the English author, died aged 41 |
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| 1720 - | Gilbert White, English naturalist, was born |
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