| 1994 - | The last part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
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| 1991 - | Conservative Prime Minister, John Major, launched the 'Citizens Charter' |
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| 1986 - | Parliament voted to ban corporal punishement in schools |
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| 1969 - | Prince Juan Carlos was named as the future king of Spain by General Franco |
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| 1965 - | Sir Alec Douglas Home resigned as leader of the Conservative Party |
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| 1946 - | Bread rationing began in Britain, after a poor wheat harvest |
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| 1934 - | John Dillinger, the FBI's most wanted man, was gunned down in Chicago, USA |
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| 1933 - | Wiley Post became the first person to fly around the world |
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| 1905 - | Philadelphia Athletics Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0 |
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| 1901 - | Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro |
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| 1888 - | Selman Abraham Waksman, US biochemist, was born |
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| 1802 - | Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist, died |
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