| 1979 - | The first nudists beach in Britain was opened at Brighton |
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| 1974 - | Gerald Ford became the 39th president of the United States |
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| 1973 - | The USSR launched the Mars 7 spacecraft to the planet Mars |
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| 1971 - | Internment without the need for a trial was introduced in Northern Ireland |
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| 1965 - | Singapore became an independent country from Malaysia |
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| 1953 - | The Greek Ionian islands suffered a series of earthquakes |
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| 1945 - | The second atomic bomb of World War II was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki |
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| 1945 - | The second atomic bomb of World War 2 was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki |
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| 1927 - | Marvin Minsky Artifical intelligence computer scientist (MIT) Born |
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| 1912 - | An earthquake struck Turkey, in the area of Istanbul, killing 6,000 people and rendering 40,000 homeless |
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| 1912 - | An earthquake struck Turkey making 40,000 people homeless |
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| 1910 - | Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine |
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| 1905 - | Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobbs mother kills him |
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| 1902 - | Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria |
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| 1902 - | King Edward VII was crowned in Westminster Abbey |
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| 1901 - | 34-35øN/98-99øW open for US colonization |
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| 1757 - | Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer, was born |
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