| 1993 - | The Australian PM announced plans to make Australia a republic by 2001 |
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| 1989 - | Hungary began a transition to a Western style democracy |
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| 1981 - | France abolished capital punishement |
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| 1970 - | Jimi Hendrix, the US rock guitarist, died |
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| 1967 - | John Douglas Cockcroft, English nuclear physicist, died |
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| 1934 - | The Soviet Union was admitted to the League of Nations |
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| 1927 - | The American CBS broacasting organisation was created |
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| 1914 - | The Irish Home Rule Bill began |
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| 1911 - | Britains 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown |
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| 1911 - | Louis Napoleon Parkers Disraeli, premieres in NYC |
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| 1910 - | 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage |
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| 1909 - | Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), As beat Tigers, Feb-00 in Det |
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| 1908 - | Cleve Indian Bob Dusty Rhoades no-hits Boston, 2-1 |
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| 1905 - | Electric tramline opens in Rotterdam |
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| 1903 - | Phillies Chick Fraser no-hits Chic Cubs, 10-0 |
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| 1879 - | Blackpool`s famous illuminations were switched on for the first time |
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| 1879 - | Balckpool's famous illuminations were switched on for the first time |
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| 1851 - | The 'New York Times' newspaper was first published |
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| 1819 - | Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, French physicist, was born |
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| 1783 - | Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, died |
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