| 1990 - | Britons were held hostage at Iraqi miltary installations, during the Gulf War |
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| 1977 - | The US Voyager I spacecraft was launched on its journey via Jupiter and Saturn to become the first artificial object to leave the solar system |
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| 1977 - | The US spacecraft Voyager 2 was launched to the outer solar system |
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| 1975 - | The US probe Viking I was launched; first craft to send pictures from the surface of Mars |
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| 1968 - | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia |
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| 1956 - | Calder Hall nuclear power plant, Britain`s first nuclear power station, began operating with the promise of ‘electricity too cheap to meter’ |
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| 1956 - | Britain's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, began operating |
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| 1940 - | Leon Trotsky, the Russian politician, was murdered |
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| 1917 - | Bathing by Berlin residents was banned, to save water and coal |
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| 1915 - | Paul Ehrlich, German biochemist, died |
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| 1914 - | German forces occupied the Belgian city of Brussels |
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| 1910 - | US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua |
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| 1908 - | Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo |
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| 1901 - | Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony |
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| 1900 - | Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games |
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