| 1986 - | Desmond Tutu became the Archbishop of Capetown, the first black man to do so |
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| 1978 - | Keith Moon, drummer with 'The Who', died of a drugs overdose |
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| 1943 - | During the Second World War, Italy surrended to the Allies |
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| 1907 - | Sutros ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire |
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| 1905 - | Italy suffered an earthquake, killing thousands and completely destroying many villages |
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| 1903 - | Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY |
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| 1901 - | Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in China |
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| 1901 - | China officially ended the Boxer uprising |
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| 1838 - | Grace Darling became a national heroine, after rescuing wrecked sailors |
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| 1707 - | Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon, French mathematician who discovered the bionomial theorem, was born |
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| 1548 - | Catherine Parr, 6th wife of Henry VIII, died |
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