| 1993 - | Fred Weick, US aeronautical engineer,died |
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| 1986 - | British Steel made a profit for the first time in 17 years |
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| 1985 - | Britain lifted its trade ban with Argentina after the Falklands crisis ended |
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| 1981 - | There were riots in Moss Side, Manchester, & Wood Green, London |
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| 1978 - | Mount Everest was successfully climbed without the use of oxygen masks |
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| 1967 - | Vivien Leigh, the British actress in 'Gone With The Wind', died |
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| 1939 - | Henry Havelock Ellis, English physician and author, died |
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| 1918 - | National Savings stamps went on sale for the first time |
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| 1911 - | Nan Aspinwall is 1st woman to make solo transcont trip by horse |
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| 1909 - | 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights |
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| 1907 - | Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies on NY Theater roof |
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| 1905 - | Part of Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center |
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| 1902 - | John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles |
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| 1900 - | 1st night baseball, league game (Zanesville at Grand Rapids) |
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| 1884 - | The childrens charity, the NSPCC, was founded in London |
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| 1882 - | The poet, Percy Shelly, was drowned while in Italy |
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| 1497 - | Vasco da Gama left Lisbon on his voyage of discovery to India |
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