| 1990 - | The Soviet parliament agreed on a Bill for allowing religious practices |
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| 1988 - | The Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for drug taking |
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| 1984 - | The UK agreed to hand over the soverignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
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| 1979 - | Compulsary metrication in Britain was abandoned |
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| 1968 - | Theatre censorship in Britain was abolished |
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| 1953 - | Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end |
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| 1934 - | The liner 'Queen Mary' was launched in Clydebank, Scotland |
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| 1908 - | Ed Ruelbach shuts-out Dodgers in a doubleheader |
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| 1907 - | NZ declares independence from UK |
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| 1906 - | Pitts Lefty Leifield no-hits Phillies, Aug-00 in 6 inning game |
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| 1904 - | Charles Kleins Music Master, premieres in NYC |
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| 1904 - | Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada |
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| 1904 - | GB Shaws How He Lied to Her Husband, premieres in NYC |
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| 1901 - | Boer General Botha captures Fort Itala in Natal |
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| 1901 - | Great Britain annexes Gold Coast (Ghana) |
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| 1887 - | German-born US Emile Berliner patented the first phonograph |
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| 1887 - | The worlds first gramaphone was patented in Germany |
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| 1849 - | Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, Russian physiologist, was born |
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