| 1991 - | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was 'wound up' by the Congress of Peoples Deputies |
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| 1980 - | The world`s longest road tunnel, the St Gotthard, was opened running 16km/10mi from Goschenen to Airolo, Switzerland |
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| 1975 - | At London's Hilton Hotel a bomb exploded, killing two people and injuring sixty three |
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| 1975 - | US President Gerald Ford escaped an assassination attempt in Sacramento |
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| 1972 - | Israeli athletes were held hostage by Arab guerrillas at the Munich Olympics |
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| 1969 - | Independent Television (ITV) began broadcasting in colour |
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| 1951 - | Maureen Connolly, Little Mo, became the youngest winner of the US Tennis Championships |
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| 1922 - | US aviator James Doolittle made the first US coast-to-coast flight in 21 hrs, 19 min |
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| 1910 - | Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings |
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| 1908 - | Dodger Nap Rucker no-hits Boston Braves, 6-0 |
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| 1906 - | 1st legal forward pass (Brandbury Robinson to Jack Schneider) |
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| 1905 - | Lillian Mortimers No Mother to Guide, premieres in Detroit |
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| 1905 - | Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War |
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| 1905 - | The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ended |
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| 1901 - | National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues forms |
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| 1900 - | France proclaims a protectorate over Chad |
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| 1569 - | Pieter Brueghel, the Flemish painter, died |
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