| 1992 - | Widespread racial violence against immigrants continued in Germany |
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| 1989 - | Due to a computer error, 41,000 Parisians received letters charging them with murder, extortion, and organized prostitution instead of traffic violations |
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| 1987 - | Kurdish leaders appealed to the UN for protection from Iraqi attacks |
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| 1965 - | India invaded West Pakistan |
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| 1942 - | The German advance into the USSR was halted at Stalingrad |
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| 1941 - | German jewish citizens were forced to wear yellow stars of David on their clothes |
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| 1910 - | Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
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| 1909 - | Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
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| 1905 - | Atlanta Life Insurance Company forms |
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| 1905 - | Chic White Sox Frank Smith no-hits Detroit Tigers, 15-0 |
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| 1905 - | General Trade journal publishes 1st Dutch photo (train accident) |
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| 1904 - | Soccer team Rheden forms |
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| 1903 - | Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Creeping Man (BG) |
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| 1901 - | Pres William McKinley, shot by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at Pan American Exposition in Buffalo NY, he dies 8th days later |
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| 1901 - | US President William McKinley was fatally wounded in an assassination attempt |
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| 1900 - | British General Buller occupies Lydenburg South Africa |
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| 1880 - | The first ever England & Australia test match was played at the Oval |
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| 1852 - | Britains first free lending library opened in Manchester |
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| 1766 - | John Dalton, British chemist, was born |
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| 1666 - | The Great Fire of London was finally put out after four days |
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| 1522 - | Ferdinand Magellan`s 17 surviving crew members reached the Spanish coast aboard the Vittoria, having completed the first circumnavigation of the world |
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