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2001 |
A car bomb exploded in front of the BBC Television Centre in London. The bombing was was attributed to the terrorist organization, Real IRA. |
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1997 |
The United States banned all federally funded human cloning research. |
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1989 |
Time, Inc. and Warner Communications announced their planned merger that would form the Time-Warner company. |
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1977 |
A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, struck the Balkans. The city of Bucharest, Hungary was hit the hardest where an estimated 1500 died. |
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1966 |
A Canadian Pacific passenger airliner exploded while it was landing at Tokyo's international airport, resulting in the death of 64 people. |
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1961 |
American boxer, Ray Mancini, was born in Ohio. |
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1960 |
A French freighter ship exploded while docked in the harbour of Havana, Cuba. 100 people died in the explosion for which Cuban president, Fidel Castro, blamed the United States. |
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1951 |
Scottish footballer, Kenny Dalglish, was born in Glasgow. He was one of the most famous footballers of the 1970s and 1980's. |
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1951 |
British singer, Chris Rea, was born in Middlesbrough. |
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1950 |
Walt Disney's animated feature film Cinderella premiered in the United States. |
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1946 |
The first ever Frank Sinatra album, was released by Columbia Records. The album was called "The Voice Of Frank Sinatra". |
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1945 |
Finland declared war on Nazi Germany. |
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1894 |
A huge blaze in the city of Shanghai, destroyed more than 1,000 buildings. |
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1887 |
Gottlieb Daimler, founder of the Daimler - Benz company, introduced his first automobile. |
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1877 |
The microphone was invented by German inventor, Emile Berliner. |
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1877 |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's classical ballet, Swan Lake, was performed for the first time. |
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1791 |
Vermont was admitted as the 14th US state. |
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1152 |
Frederick I Barbarossa was elected King of the Germans. He was later on, also crowned Holy Roman Emperor. He took part in both the second and the third crusades. |
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