| 1993 - | A South African Bill granted blacks a legal say in affairs of state for the first time |
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| 1987 - | Britain ended arms sales to Iran |
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| 1974 - | The world`s first Ceefax teletext service was begun in Britain by the BBC |
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| 1974 - | The BBC began broadcasting its Ceefax teletext service |
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| 1957 - | An Asian flu epidemic swept across Britain |
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| 1940 - | Japanese troops entered Indo China |
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| 1939 - | Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst, died |
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| 1912 - | The first ever silent 'Keystone Cops' film was released |
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| 1911 - | Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot |
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| 1908 - | Giant Fred (Bonehead) Merkle fails to touch 2nd, causes 3rd out in 9th and disallows winning run (game ends tied, Cubs win replay & pennant) |
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| 1908 - | University of Alberta opens |
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| 1907 - | Proclamation sets fineness and weight of silver & bronze coins of Canada |
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| 1905 - | Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken |
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| 1904 - | Francis Younghusbands leaves Lhasa Tibet |
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| 1848 - | Chewing gum was first commercially produced in the US by John Curtis in his home, and was called State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum |
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| 1848 - | Chewing gum went on sale for the first time in the United States |
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| 1846 - | German astronomer Johann Galle discovered the planet Neptune |
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| 1846 - | The planet Neptune was discovered by German astronomer Johann Galle |
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