| 1985 - | Following an aborted take-off, a British Airtours Boeing 737 burst into flames on the runway at Manchester Airport 55 persons were killed |
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| 1985 - | A British Airtours 737 caught fire on the runway at Manchester airport |
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| 1963 - | NASA's X-15 aircraft reached a record breaking height of 67 miles |
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| 1940 - | Oliver Lodge, English physicist, died |
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| 1933 - | The BBC televised its first ever boxing match |
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| 1920 - | Ray Bradbury, US writer, was born |
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| 1911 - | Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913) |
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| 1911 - | Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris |
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| 1911 - | The picture 'Mona Lisa' was stolen from the Louvre art gallery, Paris |
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| 1910 - | Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate |
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| 1908 - | Henri Cartier-Bresson, France, photographer (Decisive Moment) |
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| 1907 - | Colin Buchanan, town planner |
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| 1907 - | Cyril Astley Clarke, British geneticist |
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| 1906 - | 1st Victor Victrola manufactured |
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| 1902 - | Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car |
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| 1901 - | Cadillac Co forms |
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| 1900 - | Gabriel Faur‚s opera Prom‚th‚e, premieres in Beziers |
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| 1900 - | Foreign troops and civilians looted the city of Peking |
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| 1864 - | The International Red Cross was formed in Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 1788 - | The British created the settlement of Sierra Leone, Africa, for freed slaves |
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| 1642 - | King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham, & the English Civil War began |
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