| 1976 - | Trinidad and Tobago became an independent country from Britain |
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| 1975 - | The Helsinki Agreement, on human rights, was signed by over 35 nations |
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| 1965 - | Cigarette advertising on British television was banned |
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| 1914 - | Germany declared war on the Soviet Union; Italy declared itself neutral |
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| 1912 - | An airmail service between London and Paris began |
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| 1911 - | Omar N Bradley -18 begins education in West Point |
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| 1909 - | British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed |
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| 1907 - | Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF |
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| 1907 - | Signal Corps of US army starts aircraft division |
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| 1903 - | 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed |
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| 1902 - | Building begins on Dutch public housing |
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| 1902 - | Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia (100 die) |
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| 1901 - | Burial within SF City limits prohibited |
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| 1834 - | The British Empire abolished slavery |
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| 1798 - | The English navy, under Nelson, defeated the French at the Battle of the Nile |
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| 1793 - | The kilogram was introduced in France as the first metric weight |
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| 1774 - | English chemist Joseph Priestley identified oxygen, which he called `a new species of air` |
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| 1774 - | Joseph Priestley isolated the gas 'oxygen' for the first time |
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| 1744 - | Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, French zoologist, was born |
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| 1498 - | Christopher Columbus reached the American mainland, and named it Santa Isla, believing it to be an island |
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