| 2001 - | Terrorists attack World Trade Center. Approximately 2,750 people died. |
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| 1986 - | Wall Street, the American stock exchange, suffered a record fall |
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| 1986 - | A scheme began at three power stations to reduce sulphur emissions |
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| 1978 - | Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian defector, was fatally stabbed by a poisoned umbrella point wielded by a Bulgarian secret agent in London, UK |
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| 1971 - | Nikita Krushchev, the Russian leader, died |
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| 1926 - | An assignation attempt was made on Italian leader Benito Mussolini |
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| 1922 - | A British mandate was declared in Palestine, Middle East |
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| 1913 - | A cholera epidemic continued to spread through much of central Europe |
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| 1910 - | 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) |
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| 1909 - | Max Wolf rediscovers Halleys comet |
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| 1900 - | President Kruger crosses border with Mozambique |
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| 1877 - | James Hopwood Jeans, British mathematician and scientist, was born |
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| 1869 - | David Thomas Graham, Scottish chemist, died |
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| 1841 - | In Britain, the London to Brighton commuter express train began regular service, taking just 105 minutes |
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| 1841 - | The London to Brighton commuter express began a regular service |
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| 1712 - | Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer, died |
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