| 1986 - | The British stock market suffered its biggest ever one day fall |
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| 1978 - | Pope Paul VI died |
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| 1976 - | The government passed the Drought Act to combat the continued UK drought |
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| 1962 - | Jamaica became independent from Britain |
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| 1945 - | An atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from a US Boeing B29 bomber |
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| 1945 - | The first atomic bomb of World War 2 was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima |
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| 1926 - | The English Channel was swum for the first time by a woman |
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| 1923 - | Bread riots broke out in the German city of Dresden |
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| 1915 - | During World War I, the city of Warsaw fell into German hands |
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| 1913 - | Parliament considered the building of a Channel Tunnel |
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| 1910 - | NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt |
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| 1908 - | St Louis Card John Lushs 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, Feb-00 in 6 inn |
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| 1905 - | 26.7 cm rainfall at Princeton, Indiana (state record) |
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| 1881 - | Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, was born |
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| 1806 - | The Holy Roman empire officially ended |
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