| 1988 - | A US warship in the Gulf accidently shot down an Iranian airliner |
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| 1986 - | The government abandoned its water privatisation plans |
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| 1981 - | There were riots in Southall during a punk concert |
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| 1954 - | Food rationing in Britain officially ended |
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| 1944 - | The Russian city of Minsk was recaptured from the Germans |
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| 1928 - | The first colour TV transmission was made by John Logie Baird |
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| 1911 - | Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day |
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| 1907 - | Pope decree forbids modernization of theology |
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| 1905 - | Kuyper govt forms in Holland |
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| 1905 - | Marvin Hart KOs Jack Hart in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1902 - | Excelsior soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
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| 1866 - | Henry Frederick Baker, English mathematician who worked on algebraic function theory and birational geometry, was born |
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| 1863 - | The battle of Gettysberg, during the American Civil War, ended |
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| 1608 - | The Candian city of Quebec was founded by Samuel Champlain |
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