| 1989 - | The US space probe Voyager reached Neptune pictures of Triton, its moon, revealed the existence of two additional moons |
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| 1988 - | The first GCSE results were published |
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| 1988 - | Romanian Chess master Mihai Suba & his son defected to the West during an international tournament in London |
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| 1988 - | The controversial film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' was passed by censors for public showing |
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| 1983 - | Adrian Moorhouse won a gold medal at the European swimming championships in Rome |
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| 1981 - | The spacecraft Voyager 2 flew past the planet Saturn |
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| 1919 - | The first daily scheduled flights started between London and Paris |
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| 1919 - | The first international air service began between Paris and London |
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| 1917 - | The Order of the British Empire (OBE), and the Companion of Honour (CH), were awarded for the first time |
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| 1910 - | 30th US Mens Tennis |
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| 1908 - | Allen Winter wins US 1st $50,000 trotting race |
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| 1908 - | National Association of Colored Nurses, forms |
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| 1904 - | James J Jeffries TKOs Jack Munroe in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1867 - | Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, died |
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| 1867 - | Michael Faraday, physicist and founder of the science of electromagnetism, died |
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| 1822 - | William Herschel, English astronomer, died |
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