| 1995 - | The Queen Mother celebrated her 95th birthday |
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| 1983 - | Italy elected its first socialist prime minister since 1946 |
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| 1977 - | Edgar Adrian, British physiologist, died |
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| 1972 - | Ugandan President Amin expelled 40,000 British Asians |
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| 1971 - | The US launched its first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft |
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| 1966 - | Britain appointed its first Ombudsman, Sir Edmund Compton |
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| 1923 - | The BBC began using the 'pips' as a time signal in its broadcasts |
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| 1921 - | A famine struck Russia; millions starved/ate grass |
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| 1914 - | Britain declared war on Germany |
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| 1910 - | As Jack Coombs and White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie |
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| 1909 - | Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at As 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hursts banishment |
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| 1903 - | Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto of Venice elected Pope Pius X |
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| 1875 - | Hans Christian Anderson, the fairy tale writer, died |
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