| 1994 - | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
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| 1990 - | A rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, was attended by 150,000 |
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| 1985 - | The South African government declared a State of Emergency |
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| 1983 - | The authorities ended Martial Law in Poland |
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| 1976 - | The British ambassador to the Irish Republic was assassinated |
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| 1969 - | The lunar module Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and US astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin took their first exploratory walk |
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| 1961 - | The United States launched astronaut Gus Grissom aboard Mercury 4 |
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| 1959 - | 'Savannah', the worlds first nuclear powered merchant ship, was launched |
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| 1944 - | American marines captured the western Pacific island of Guam |
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| 1904 - | After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed |
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| 1904 - | Camille Jenatzy sets world auto speed record at 65.79 MPH |
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| 1900 - | Pope Leo XIII encyclical to Greek-Melkite rite |
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