| 1991 - | A coup attempted to remove President Gorbachev from power in the Soviet Union |
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| 1986 - | Nuclear reprocessing at Sellafield was halted because of sea discharge guidelines |
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| 1979 - | Two soviet cosmonauts completed a record 175 day space flight |
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| 1977 - | Groucho Marx, the American comedian of the 'Marx Brothers', died |
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| 1973 - | George Papadopoulos became the first president of Greece |
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| 1969 - | The army took over the policing of Northern Ireland |
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| 1942 - | Allied forces mounted a raid on the French port of Dieppe |
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| 1940 - | The British withdrew from British Somaliland |
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| 1911 - | NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times |
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| 1909 - | Indianapolis 500 race track opens |
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| 1905 - | Russian tsar installs Imperial Duma, without legislative powers |
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| 1903 - | Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game |
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| 1900 - | Start of the one and only olympic cricket match, in Paris |
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| 1897 - | Electric-powered cabs appeared in London, UK they proved to be uneconomical and were withdrawn in 1900 |
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| 1897 - | Taxi cabs began operating in London |
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| 1808 - | James Nasmyth, Scottish inventor, was born |
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| 1662 - | Blaise Pascal, French philosopher and mathematician, died |
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| 1646 - | John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal, was born |
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