| 1992 - | A small number of wounded Bosnians were evacuated to the UK |
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| 1974 - | The civil war in Beirut, Lebanon, broke out between the Christians & Muslims |
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| 1964 - | The 'Sun' newspaper was published for the first time |
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| 1940 - | The Battle of Britain came to an end, with victory for the RAF |
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| 1935 - | The Third Reich, in Germany, adopted the 'Swastika' as the national flag |
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| 1915 - | Tanks were used for the first time, by the British in the Somme |
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| 1910 - | Boers and Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
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| 1904 - | Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight |
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| 1904 - | King Peter I was crowned in Serbia |
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| 1903 - | Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers criminals |
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| 1859 - | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, died. |
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| 1859 - | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the victorian engineer, died |
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| 1830 - | The Manchester and Liverpool railway opened during the ceremony, William Huskisson, MP, became the first person to be killed by a train. |
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| 1830 - | The Manchester and Liverpool railway opened |
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| 1784 - | The first ascent in a hydrogen balloon in England was made by the Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi. |
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