| 1991 - | An attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev was stopped by Boris Yeltsin |
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| 1986 - | A report on the Chernobyl disaster blamed 'human error' |
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| 1984 - | There were widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections |
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| 1963 - | Martial law was imposed in South Vietnam |
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| 1959 - | Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America |
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| 1939 - | Civil Defence, because of the impending war, was started in Britain |
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| 1915 - | Italy declared war on Turkey |
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| 1901 - | 21st US Mens Tennis |
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| 1901 - | Joe McGinnity, suspended from NL for punching and spitting on an ump |
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| 1900 - | Allied forces overan Peking's inner city |
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| 1754 - | William Murdock, Scottish inventor, was born |
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