| 1990 - | Kuwait was declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein |
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| 1984 - | DJ's Peter Powell & Mike Read were rescued, when their speedboat sprang a leak off the Cornish coast |
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| 1973 - | Princess Anne visited Russia, becoming the first member of the Royal Family to do so |
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| 1972 - | Prince William of Gloucester died, when his aircraft crashed during an air show |
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| 1967 - | The Inventor of Monopoly, Charles Darrow, died |
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| 1963 - | Over 200,000 people marched through Washington in a civil rights demonstration; joined by many stars |
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| 1958 - | Ernest Orlando Lawrence, US physicist, died |
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| 1919 - | Godfrey Hounsfield, British inventor of the body scanner, was born |
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| 1911 - | 45.7 cm rainfall at St George, Georgia (state record) |
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| 1908 - | 14th US Golf Open |
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| 1907 - | United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle |
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| 1850 - | The Channel telegraph cable was laid between Dover and Cap Gris Nez |
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| 1789 - | William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn |
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