| 1981 - | Voyager made its closest approach to the planet Saturn, enroute to Uranus |
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| 1974 - | Charles Lindbergh, US pioneer aviator, died |
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| 1972 - | Sir Francis Chichester, the round the World yachtsman, died |
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| 1959 - | The Radio Show opened at Earls Court in London, with the appearance of some of the first 'transistor' radios |
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| 1952 - | The USSR announced that it had successfully tested the ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) |
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| 1940 - | The RAF bombed the German city of Berlin for the first time |
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| 1936 - | The first high definition television pictures were transmitted by the BBC |
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| 1920 - | Women in United States of America were given the right to vote |
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| 1909 - | Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 and 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs |
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| 1909 - | Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day |
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| 1907 - | Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec |
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| 1906 - | German police discovered a bomb making factory run by Russians in Hamburg |
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| 1903 - | Phillies walk 17 Dodgers in a game |
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| 1873 - | Lee De Forest, US physicist, was born |
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| 1850 - | Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist and microscopist, died |
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| 1346 - | The Battle of Crecy took place between English and French forces |
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