| 1993 - | The government announced its plans to privatise the Post Office |
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| 1990 - | Britain resumed diplomatic relations with Iran, in the Middle East |
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| 1983 - | GNU Project officially announced |
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| 1979 - | Gracie Fields, the English wartime singer, died |
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| 1979 - | The TV programme 'Question Time', with Robin Day, was shown for the first time |
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| 1939 - | The Polish capital, Warsaw, surrended to the German army |
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| 1938 - | The 80,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth was launched by the Queen Mother |
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| 1938 - | The Queen Mother launched the liner 'Queen Elizabeth' in Scotland |
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| 1922 - | King Constantine I of Greece abdicated |
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| 1910 - | 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) |
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| 1909 - | 29th US Mens Tennis |
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| 1905 - | 1st published blues composition forms sale, WC Handy Memphis Blues |
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| 1905 - | Bostons Bill Dinneen no-hits Chic White Sox, 2-0 |
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| 1900 - | Victory Theater (Republic, Belasco) opens at 207 W 42nd St NYC |
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| 1826 - | The Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first passenger rail service, opened, with its first steam locomotive travelling at 10 mph |
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| 1826 - | The first ever passenger railway opened, The Stockton and Darlington |
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| 1821 - | Mexico became an independent country from Spain |
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