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22nd April 1889: Oklahoma Land Rush takes place with 2 million acres of Unassigned Lands opened to settlement

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21st April 1967: Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, arrives in the USA after defecting from the Soviet Union

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20th April 1792: The French Revolutionary Wars begin when the Assembly vote for war against Austria

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19th April 1987: The Simpsons make their first television appearance on The Tracey Ullman Show

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18th April 1775: Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington with his message that the Regulars are coming out!

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17th April 1907: Ellis Island in New York Harbor has its busiest day, processing 11,747 immigrants

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16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opens as Thomas Tallys Electric Theatre

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15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

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14th April 1935: Black Sunday dust storm sweeps across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl era

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13th April 1970: Apollo 13 spacecraft rocked by an explosion from one of its oxygen tanks

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12th April 1861: American Civil War begins with the Battle of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

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11th April 1968: The Fair Housing Act of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 signed into law by President Johnson

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10th April 1815: The most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history occurred at Mount Tambora

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9th April 1865: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse

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8th April 1838: SS Great Western begins her maiden voyage to New York as the first steamship specifically built for transatlantic travel

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7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the domino theory of the spread of communism during a news conference

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6th April 1793: Committee of Public Safety established by the National Convention of France

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5th April 1722: Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen becomes the first European to encounter Easter Island

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4th April 1925: Adolf Hitler orders the establishment of the SS

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3rd April 1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first de facto Prime Minister of Great Britain

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2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops

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1st April 1944: The USAAF accidentally bomb the neutral Swiss town of Schaffhausen instead of a German chemical factory

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31st March 1985: WrestleMania I takes place at Madison Square Garden in New York City

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30th March 1900: Archaeologists at the ancient site of Knossos discover the first clay tablet inscribed with Linear B

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29th March 1806: Construction of the Cumberland Road, the first federally funded highway, authorised by U.S. Congress

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28th March 1979: Worst accident in U.S. nuclear power plant history at Three Mile Island Generating Station

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27th March 1964: Most powerful earthquake ever recorded in North America struck Alaska

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26th March 1351: Combat of the Thirty fought between English and Breton soldiers during the Breton War of Succession

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25th March 1965: The Selma to Montgomery March ends at the Alabama State Capitol

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24th March 1989: Start of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaskas Prince William Sound

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23rd March 1857: The worlds first successful passenger elevator installed in a five-storey New York City department store

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22nd March 1622: Indian Massacre of 1622 occurred in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia

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21st March 1952: Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, takes place in Cleveland, Ohio

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20th March 1854: U.S. Republican Party founded at a meeting in a schoolhouse in Wisconsin

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19th March 1831: City Bank of New York robbed in the first widely-reported bank heist in U.S. history

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18th March 1990: 13 works of art stolen from Bostons Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the worlds largest ever art theft

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17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patricks Day parade took place in the city of New York

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16th March 1660: Englands Long Parliament dissolved after twenty years in session

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15th March 1916: U.S. General Pershing led the Punitive Expedition into Mexico to locate revolutionary leader Pancho Villa

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14th March 1939: The First Slovak Republic proclaimed, as a client state of Nazi Germany

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13th March 1942: Julia Flikke, the commander of the Army Nurse Corps, became the first female Colonel in the United States

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12th March 1947: Truman Doctrine established when the President asks for aid to Greece and Turkey

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11th March 1941: Lend-Lease Act signed into law by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

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10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble

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9th March 1776: The Wealth of Nations published by Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith

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8th March 1971: Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier faced each other in the Fight of the Century

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7th March 1850: Senator Daniel Webster makes his Seventh of March speech in favour of the Compromise of 1850

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6th March 1857: The US Supreme Court makes its ruling in the Dred Scott case

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5th March 1936: Supermarine Spitfire aircraft makes its maiden test flight

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4th March 1865: Andrew Johnson, Vice President of the United States, delivers his inaugural address while drunk

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3rd March 1857: The largest ever sale of enslaved people in the United States, known as the Weeping Time

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2nd March 537: First Siege of Rome begins as the Ostrogoth army encircle the Byzantine forces of the general Belisarius

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1st March 1562: Massacre of Vassy marks the beginning of the French Wars of Religion

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29th February 1796: Jay Treaty marks the start of ten years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain

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28th February 1849: First 49ers arrive in San Francisco to begin the California Gold Rush

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27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee

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26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland Jass Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

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25th February 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African-American U.S. Senator

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24th February 1920: Adolf Hitler announces the 25 Point Programme and the establishment of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP)

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23rd February 1836: The Siege of the Alamo begins, lasting for thirteen days before the final battle

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22nd February 1946: The Long Telegram sent by George F. Kennan, a senior American diplomat in Moscow

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21st February 1885: the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. was dedicated

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20th February 1939: Pro-Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden in New York City

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19th February 1913: Pedro Lascurain began the worlds shortest ever presidency in Mexico

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18th February 1915: Germany initiates a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare during the First World War

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17th February 1966: First recording session for the Beach Boys song Good Vibrations takes place at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles

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16th February 1861: Abraham Lincoln meets the girl who advised him to grow a beard to gain more votes

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15th February 1946: ENIAC, the worlds first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, formally dedicated

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14th February 1939: German battleship Bismarck launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg

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13th February 1981: The sewers of Louisville, Kentucky, explode after industrial waste makes its way into the tunnels

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12th February 1924: First performance of George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue

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11th February 1919: Friedrich Ebert elected as first President of the German Weimar Republic

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10th February 1962: Captured U-2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers freed in a prisoner exchange

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9th February 1950: Joseph McCarthy starts the Second Red Scare with a speech claiming Communists were working in the U.S. Department of State

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8th February 1910: The Boy Scouts of America organization incorporated by William D. Boyce in Washington D.C.

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7th February 1914: Charlie Chaplins iconic Tramp character makes his first public appearance in the film Kid Auto Races at Venice

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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

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5th February 1909: Bakelite, the worlds first synthetic plastic, announced by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland

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4th February 1555: John Rogers became the first Protestant martyr under Bloody Mary I of England

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3rd February 1972: The deadliest recorded blizzard hit northwestern, central and southern Iran

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2nd February 1709: Alexander Selkirk rescued after spending more than four years as a castaway

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1st February 1861: Texas declares its secession from the United States after a convention votes overwhelmingly in favour

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31st January 1865: Thirteenth Amendment passed by the US Congress to formally abolish slavery

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30th January 1835: Andrew Jackson survives the first assassination attempt of a sitting US President

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29th January 2002: The phrase Axis of Evil used for the first time by President George W. Bush

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28th January 1896: First speeding ticket for an automobile issued to British motorist Walter Arnold

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27th January 1916: Conscription for WW1 introduced by the British Government in the Military Service Act

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26th January 1885: Siege of Khartoum ends when Sudanese Mahdist forces capture the city from Governor-General Charles George Gordon

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25th January 1924: First Winter Olympic Games begin in Chamonix, France

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24th January 1935: The first canned beer goes on sale from the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company in Richmond, Virginia

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23rd January 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman to receive a medical degree in the USA

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22nd January 1973: The Supreme Court issues its decision on the Roe v. Wade abortion case

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21st January 1954: Launch of USS Nautilus, the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine

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20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday

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19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union

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18th January 1911: Eugene Ely lands the first aircraft on a ship when he touches down on USS Pennsylvania

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17th January 1966: Palomares incident sees a B-52 break apart after a mid-air collision, dropping four nuclear bombs

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16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

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15th January 1892: Rules for basketball published for the first time by James Naismith

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14th January 1967: The Human Be-In takes place in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park

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13th January 1910: First public radio broadcast features a live performance from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York

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12th January 1848: The first of the Revolutions of 1848 begins in Palermo on the island of Sicily

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11th January 1964: US Surgeon General publishes groundbreaking report on the health effects of tobacco smoking

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10th January 1776: Thomas Paine publishes the pamphlet Common Sense advocating American independence

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9th January 1861: Star of the West fired upon by South Carolina batteries as it approached Fort Sumter

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8th January 1828: Democratic Party established in the United States to become the oldest active voter-based political party in the world

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7th January 1782: The Bank of North America, the nations first chartered bank, opens in Philadelphia

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6th January 1912: Continental Drift hypothesis first presented by German scientist Alfred Wegener

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5th January 1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman in the United States to be sworn in as governor of a state

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4th January 1903: Topsy the elephant electrocuted at Luna Park in Coney Island, New York

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3rd January 1911: The Siege of Sidney Street gunfight takes place in Londons East End

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2nd January 1959: USSR launches Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon

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1st January 1739: Discovery of Bouvet Island, the worlds most remote island

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31st December 1600: The East India Company officially established with a charter from Elizabeth I

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30th December 1916: Mad Monk Grigori Rasputin murdered by Russian nobles

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29th December 1937: Constitution of Ireland comes into effect as the longest continually operating republican constitution in the E.U.

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28th December 1958: The Greatest Game Ever Played in the NFL Championship Playoff

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27th December 1845: Manifest Destiny introduced in a newspaper column by John L. OSullivan

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26th December 1825: The Decembrist Revolt takes place in Russia against autocratic Tsarist rule

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25th December 1776: George Washington crosses the Delaware with a column of the Continental Army

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24th December 1818: Stille Nacht, known in English as Silent Night, performed for the first time

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23rd December 1688: James II of England flees to exile in France during the Glorious Revolution

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22nd December 1882: The first use of electric lights on a Christmas tree

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21st December 1825: The Fredonian Rebellion begins when American settlers in Mexican Texas declare their independence

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20th December 1860: South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States of America

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19th December 1918: Ripleys Believe it or Not! published for the first time in the New York Globe

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18th December 1916: End of the Battle of Verdun during the First World War

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17th December 1969: Project Blue Book, the United States Air Forces systematic study of UFOs, officially terminated

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16th December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge begins on the Western Front of the Second World War

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15th December 1791: United States Bill of Rights becomes law after ratification by the Virginia General Assembly

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14th December 1972: Gene Cernan becomes the last person on the Moon at the end of the Apollo 17 mission

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13th December 1636: The Massachusetts Bay Colony organises a formal militia, laying the foundations for the US National Guard

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12th December 2000: Bush v. Gore decision reached by the United States Supreme Court

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11th December 1941: Nazi Germany declares war on the USA

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10th December 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham executed for affairs with Catherine Howard

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9th December 1868: The worlds first traffic lights go into operation outside the Houses of Parliament in London

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8th December 1912: German Imperial War Council discusses the possibility of a European war

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7th December 1837: The Battle of Montgomerys Tavern during the Upper Canada Rebellion

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6th December 1648: Prides Purge stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons

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5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

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4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

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3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship Alfred

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2nd December 1805: The Battle of Austerlitz sees Napoleon Bonapartes Grande Armee defeat Russia and Austria

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1st December 1919: Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons

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30th November 1803: Balmis Expedition sets sail to vaccinate inhabitants of Spanish colonies against smallpox

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29th November 1929: Richard E. Byrd completes the first flight over the South Pole

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28th November 1925: The Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio show in the USA, broadcast for the first time

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27th November 1978: San Francisco politicians George Moscone and Harvey Milk shot dead by former Supervisor Dan White

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26th November 1789: The first formal National Day of Thanksgiving in the United States

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25th November 1783: The British Army departed New York City, nearly three months after the end of the American Revolutionary War

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24th November 1835: Texas Rangers formally instituted by Texan lawmakers

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23rd November 1876: William Boss Tweed delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain following his escape from prison for corruption

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22nd November 1943: Cairo Conference begins when leaders of Britain, the USA and China meet to discuss the Allied position regarding Japan

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21st November 1953: Piltdown Man fossils exposed as a forgery, undermining studies of human evolution

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20th November 1910: Uprising by Francisco Madero against Porfirio Diaz triggers the Mexican Revolution

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19th November 1919: United States Senate votes to reject the Treaty of Versailles

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18th November 1872: Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting in a Presidential election

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17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special

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16th November 1933: The USA establishes formal diplomatic relations with the USSR

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15th November 1864: Shermans March to the Sea begins when the Civil War Union General leads his troops from Atlanta, GA, to the port of Savannah

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14th November 1680: German astronomer Gottfried Kirch uses a telescope to discover a comet for the first time

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13th November 1982: Vietnam Veterans Memorial formally dedicated in Washington, D.C.

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12th November 1970: A dead whale is blown up with dynamite by the Oregon State Highway Division

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11th November 1831: Nat Turner executed for leading a violent slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia

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10th November 1983: Bill Gates announces the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface for PCs

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9th November 1979: A computer error at NORAD reports that the USSR had fired hundreds of nuclear missiles at the USA

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8th November 1861: The Trent Affair nearly causes a war between Britain and the United States

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7th November 1919: Palmer Raids in the United States result in the arrest of thousands of suspected communists and anarchists

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6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey

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5th November 1925: Sidney Reilly, the Ace of Spies, executed in the Soviet Union

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4th November 1890: City and South London Railway, the worlds first deep-level underground tube railway, officially opened

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3rd November 1868: John Willis Menard became the first African-American to be elected to Congress

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2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack

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1st November 1765: The Stamp Act went into force in the Thirteen Colonies

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31st October 1913: Formal dedication of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States

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30th October 1942: German Enigma machine ciphers retrieved from submarine U-559 by British sailors

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29th October 1964: Murf the Surf and two accomplices carry out the biggest jewel heist in New Yorks history

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28th October 1922: Benito Mussolinis Blackshirts approach the Italian capital in the March on Rome

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27th October 312: Constantine the Great receives his Vision of the Cross, marking the start of his conversion to Christianity

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26th October 1776: Benjamin Franklin departs America for France to secure a formal alliance and treaty

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25th October 1854: Charge of the Light Brigade undertaken by British forces during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War

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24th October 1648: Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War that ravaged Europe

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23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public

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22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian

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21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

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20th October 1977: Lynyrd Skynyrds plane crashes during an emergency landing, killing three members of the band

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19th October 1953: Ray Bradburys dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 first published

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18th October 1867: The Alaska Purchase completed with the formal transfer from Russia to the United States

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17th October 1860: Oldest golf tournament in the world begins with The Open at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland

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16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

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15th October 1966: The Black Panther Party founded in Oakland, California by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

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14th October 1947: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to officially break the sound barrier in the experimental Bell X-1

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13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

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12th October 1928: Iron lung respirator used for the first time

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11th October 1649: Sack of Wexford in Ireland by English forces under Oliver Cromwell who burn much of the town and kill over 1,500 people

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10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record

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9th October 1919: Black Sox Scandal overshadows the World Series baseball championship win by the Cincinnati Reds

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8th October 1871: The Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin, the most deadly wildfire in recorded history

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7th October 1763: Royal Proclamation of 1763 issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

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6th October 1973: Yom Kippur War begins when Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack on Israel

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5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched

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4th October 1927: Work begins on the USAs Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota

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3rd October 1993: The Black Hawk Down incident during the Battle of Mogadishu

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2nd October 1627: The Chongzhen Emperor, the last ruler of the Ming Dynasty, ascends the throne

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1st October 1957: The phrase In God We Trust appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time

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30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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29th September 1918: German Supreme Army Command urges Wilhelm II negotiate an armistice after the Allies break through the Hindenburg Line

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28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

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27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day

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26th September 1983: Nuclear war avoided after Soviet detection system wrongly identifies incoming ballistic missile

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25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada

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24th September 1952: Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

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23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSRs first nuclear test

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22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution

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21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act

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20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match

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19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation

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18th September 1812: The Fire of Moscow burnt out five days after it began, leaving Napoleon in possession of the city

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17th September 1862: Explosion at the Allegheny Arsenal in Pennsylvania sees the largest single civilian loss of life during the American Civil War

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16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York

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15th September 1831: The First National Negro Convention was held in Philadelphia

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14th September 1607: Flight of the Earls sees Gaelic nobility, led by Hugh ONeill and Rory ODonnell, leave Ulster in Ireland for mainland Europe

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13th September 1899: Henry H. Bliss, the first person to be killed by an automobile in America

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12th September 1958: The worlds first integrated circuit demonstrated by Jack Kilby

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11th September 1973: General Augusto Pinochet seizes power in Chile after launching a coup against President Salvador Allende

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10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War

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9th September 1776: The name United States of America adopted by the Second Continental Congress

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8th September 1966: Star Trek makes its television debut with The Man Trap

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7th September 1813: According to tradition, the United States gained its nickname, Uncle Sam

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6th September 1901: President William McKinley shot at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz

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5th September 1781: Battle of the Chesapeake sees the British Navy repelled by the French during the American War of Independence

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4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer

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3rd September 301: The worlds oldest republic still in existence founded when Saint Marinus establishes San Marino

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2nd September 1935: The Labor Day hurricane, the most intense hurricane to ever make landfall

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1st September 1985: Wreck of the Titanic discovered by a team led by Robert Ballard

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31st August 1920: The worlds first radio news service begins broadcasting in Detroit, Michigan

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30th August 1963: The Moscow-Washington hotline enters operation

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29th August 1949: USSR successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning

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28th August 1955: The murder of black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi

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27th August 1883: The eruption of Krakatoa

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26th August 1346: Battle of Crecy during the Hundred Years War won by the army of the English king Edward III

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25th August 1944: Liberation of Paris as the Nazi German garrison surrenders the city to the Allies

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24th August 1967: Abbie Hoffman throws money inside the New York Stock Exchange

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23rd August 1939: Molotov and Ribbentrop from the USSR and Nai Germany sign the Nazi-Soviet Pact

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22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue

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21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA

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20th August 1920: Americas NFL, known at the time as the American Professional Football Conference, established

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19th August 1812: USS Constitution earns the nickname Old Ironsides after defeating HMS Guerriere

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18th August 1920: Ratification of the 19th Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees female suffrage

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17th August 1982: First commercial compact disc produced in the German town of Langenhagen

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16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

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15th August 1914: The Panama Canal officially opened with the transit of SS Ancon

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14th August 1941: Roosevelt and Churchill issue the Atlantic Charter

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13th August 1961: East German police and army begin to construct the Berlin Wall separating them from West Berlin

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12th August 1865: Joseph Lister conducts the worlds first antiseptic surgery using phenol, also known as carbolic acid

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11th August 3114 BCE: Start of the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar

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10th August 1792: French revolutionaries storm the Tuileries Palace in the Second Revolution

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9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

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8th August 1963: The Great Train Robbery takes place when a gang of 15 men attack a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London

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7th August 1909: Alice Ramsey makes the first female transcontinental car journey

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6th August 1890: William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair

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5th August 1861: Abraham Lincoln signs US income tax into law to help pay for the American Civil War

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4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by tipping a V-1 doodlebug

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3rd August 1936: Jesse Owens wins his first gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

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2nd August 1934: Hitler declares himself Fuhrer of Germany after Reichsprasident Hindenburg dies of lung cancer

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1st August 1834: Slavery Abolition Act comes into force in the United Kingdom

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31st July 1970: Black Tot Day ends the Royal Navys daily rum ration

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30th July 1619: The General Assembly of Virginia, the oldest continuous elected assembly in the New World, convenes for the first time

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29th July 1914: Successful voice test of the first transcontinental telephone line between New York and San Francisco

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28th July 1858: First modern use of fingerprints for identification by William Herschel in West Bengal, India

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27th July 1940: Bugs Bunny makes his cartoon debut in A Wild Hare

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26th July 1936: Hitler informs General Francisco Franco that Germany will support his Nationalist rebellion in Spain

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25th July 1909: Louis Bleriot makes the first powered cross-Channel flight

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24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres

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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat

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22nd July 1942: Wartime gasoline rationing introduced to the USA

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21st July 1925: Monkey Trial finds John T. Scopes guilty of teaching evolution

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20th July 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully land on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission

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19th July 1848: The Seneca Falls Convention for womens rights begins

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18th July 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his book Mein Kampf

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17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years War

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16th July 1945: USA detonates the first nuclear bomb under the codename Trinity

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15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off

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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille marks the start of the French Revolution

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13th July 1793: Jean-Paul Marat attacked in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday

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12th July 927: Earliest date for the founded of England under thelstan

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11th July 1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles

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10th July 1553: Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England after the death of Edward VI

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9th July 1971: Henry Kissinger makes a secret diplomatic trip to China

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8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to its lowest point during the Great Depression

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7th July 1911: North Pacific Fur Seal Convention signed for wildlife conservation

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6th July 1957: John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time at the St Peters Church garden fete in Woolton, Liverpool

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5th July 1946: The bikini swimsuit introduced four days after a Bikini Atoll atomic test

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4th July 1950: Radio Free Europe broadcasts for the first time behind the Iron Curtain

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3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir

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2nd July 1964: Civil Rights Act signed into law by US President Lyndon B. Johnson

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1st July 1911: Start of the Second Moroccan Crisis as gunboat SMS Panther is sent to Agadir

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30th June 1937: Worlds first emergency telephone number began operating in London

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29th June 2008: Apple release the iPhone

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28th June 1880: Australian outlaw Ned Kelly arrested following a violent shoot out

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27th June 1905: Mutiny on board the Russian battleship Potemkin

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26th June 1974: Worlds first barcode scanned on a pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit gum

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25th June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn takes place after American Lieutenant Colonel George Custer leads federal troops against Plains Indians

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24th June 1812: Napoleon begins his failed invasion of Russia

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23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

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22nd June 1633: Galileo Galilei forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism after being found suspect of heresy by the Papal Inquisition

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21st June 1791: Louis XVIs attempts to escape from Paris in the Flight to Varennes

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20th June 1756: British prisoners locked in the Black Hole of Calcutta

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19th June 1978: Garfield cartoon strip first published

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18th June 1887: Germany and Russia sign the secret Reinsurance Treaty

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17th June 1885: Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbour on board the French steamship Isere

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16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope

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15th June 1215: Magna Carta approved by King John at Runnymede near Windsor in England

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14th June 1645: The Battle of Naseby fought in the English Civil War

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13th June 1944: First Nazi attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the doodlebug

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12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to Tear down this wall!

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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens

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10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists

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9th June 1815: Final Act of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleons final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo

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8th June 1972: Nick Ut takes his harrowing photo of Vietnamese girl, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, running from napalm

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7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

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6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy

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5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris

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4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

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3rd June 1989: Tiananmen Square protesters fired on by the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army

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2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cups violent Battle of Santiago

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1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

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31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

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30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants Revolt in England

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29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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28th May 585 BCE: Eclipse of Thales ends the Battle of Halys between Media and Lydia

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27th May 1199: King John of England crowned at Westminster Abbey in London

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26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

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25th May 1961: US President John F. Kennedy announces his plans for a manned moon landing before the end of the decade

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24th May 1956: First Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Lugano, Switzerland

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23rd May 1618: Officials thrown from a window in the Second Defenestration of Prague

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22nd May 1455: Wars of the Roses begin at the First Battle of St Albans between Richard, Duke of York, and King Henry VI

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21st May 1972: Laszlo Toth attacks and seriously damages Michelangelos Pieta statue

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20th May 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis secure the patent for riveted blue jeans

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19th May 1919: Mustafa Kemal arrives in Samsun and begins the Turkish War of Independence

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18th May 1830: The worlds first lawnmower licensed for manufacture by Edwin Budding

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17th May 1902: The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analogue computer, was first identified by Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais

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16th May 1916: The Sykes-Picot Agreement ratified by Britain and France

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15th May 1928: Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear in their first cartoon to be shown to a cinema audience

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14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

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13th May 1787: The First Fleet departs for Australia from Portsmouth in England

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12th May 1949: The Soviet Union ends its blockade of West Berlin

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11th May 868: The worlds earliest dated printed book created in China

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10th May 1857: The start of the Indian Mutiny (First War of Indian Independence)

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9th May 1887: Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Show opened in London at the American Exhibition in West Brompton

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8th May 1945: Victory in Europe Day is celebrated as a public holiday to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe

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7th May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by the German U-Boat, U-20

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6th May 1937: Hindenburg Disaster sees the German passenger airship LZ 129 engulfed in flames following a mid-air explosion

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5th May 1912: Russian Communist newspaper Pravda first published

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4th May 1932: Al Capone begins life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary

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19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

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17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

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16th March 1968: My Lai Massacre committed by US troops

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14th March 1950: FBI launches its ‘Ten Most Wanted’ list

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11th March 1702: First edition of the Daily Courant, the first daily English-language newspaper

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10th March 1876: Bell transmits the first speech using the telephone

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9th March 1959: Barbie doll introduced at the New York Toy Fair

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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

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6th March 1869: Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table

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5th March 1046: Persian poet Nasir Khusraw’s 7-year journey through the Islamic world results in the Safarnama

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4th March 1789: First US Congress meets under new Constitution

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2nd March 1965: USA launches Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam

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1st March 1692: First of the Salem ‘witches’ face magistrates in Massachusetts

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28th February 1525: Execution of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor

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24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates

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22nd February 1943: Trial and execution of White Rose members

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20th February 1959: Jimi Hendrix plays his first gig (and gets fired)

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19th February 1985: BBC broadcasts first episode of EastEnders

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18th February 1930: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly

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17th February 1864: An enemy ship sunk by submarine for the first time

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16th February 1923: Howard Carter unseals Tutankhamun’s burial chamber

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14th February 1929: Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre committed in Chicago

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12th February 1429: Battle of the Herrings fought during the Hundred Years War

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11th February 1812: Elbridge Gerry signs the first bill to authorise ‘gerrymandering’

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9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan

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7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

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6th February 1958: Munich air disaster kills Manchester Utd players

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5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin begins

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3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

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2nd February 1852: First modern public toilets open in London

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1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

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28th January 1393: Charles VI of France and the Bal des Ardents

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27th January 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet forces

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26th January 1564: Pope Pius IV confirms the decrees of the Council of Trent

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25th January 1890: Nellie Bly circumnavigates the world in 72 days

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24th January 1908: Robert Baden-Powell publishes Scouting for Boys

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18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins

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17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm

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15th January 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg killed by Freikorps

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14th January 1973: Elvis Presley makes the first solo headline satellite broadcast in Aloha From Hawaii

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12th January 1967: Dr James Bedford becomes the first cryonically preserved human

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8th January 1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address

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7th January 1979: Cambodian leader Pol Pot overthrown

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6th January 1975: Led Zeppelin banned from Boston after fans run riot at Boston Garden arena

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4th January 1642: Charles I attempts to arrest the Five Members

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3rd January 1961: USA cuts diplomatic relations with Cuba

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2nd January 1980: Jimmy Carter instigates the end of détente after the USSR invades Afghanistan

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1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed

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31st December 1759: Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease for St. James’s Gate Brewery

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30th December 1922: Foundation of the USSR

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29th December 1890: Lakota Sioux massacred at Wounded Knee

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26th December 1991: The USSR formally dissolved

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25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

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24th December 1955: NORAD tracks Santa for the first time

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23rd December 1750: Ben Franklin accidentally shocks himself while trying to electrocute a turkey

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21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth

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18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker first performed

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17th December 497 BCE: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome

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16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough

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15th December 1851: The Forest Creek Monster Meeting of Australian gold miners protests taxes

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14th December 1911: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole

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12th December 1935: Nazis introduce Lebensborn programme

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10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded

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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

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8th December 1980: John Lennon murdered by Mark David Chapman

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7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

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6th December 1956: USSR and Hungary ‘Blood in the Water’ Olympic match

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4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios

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2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

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1st December 1918: Unification of Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania

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30th November 1982: Michael Jackson releases the album Thriller

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24th November 1859: Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

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23rd November 1889: The nickel-in-the-slot phonograph – the world’s first jukebox

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22nd November 1963: Assassination of John F. Kennedy

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

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20th November 1945: First Nuremberg Trial begins

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19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

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15th November 1969: 500,000 people march on Washington in the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam

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14th November 1990: Margaret Thatcher faces leadership challenge

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13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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10th November 1969: Sesame Street first broadcast

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7th November 1492: Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact

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6th November 1975: Sex Pistols play their first gig

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5th November 1940: President Roosevelt elected for an unprecedented third term

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4th November 1979: The Iran hostage crisis begins

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31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedely posts his 95 Theses

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30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR

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28th October 1971: Prospero, the only British satellite launched with a British rocket

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27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me

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26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp

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25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought

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24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

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17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people

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16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia

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14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

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13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances

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11th October 1521: Henry VIII becomes ‘Defender of the Faith’

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10th October 1957: Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian minister for racism in Delaware restaurant

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9th October 1967: Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara executed in Bolivia

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6th October 1683: Germantown founded in the Pennsylvania Colony

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2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

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29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

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27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

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26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate

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25th September 1513: European ‘discovery’ of the Pacific Ocean

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24th September 1789: The Judiciary Act becomes law in the United States of America

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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published

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21st September 1937: The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is first published

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19th September 1970: The First Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset

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18th September 1932: Actress Peg Entwistle’s body found after jumping from the Hollywood sign

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17th September 1978: Egypt & Israel sign Camp David Accords

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14th September 1959: The USSR sends the first man-made object to the Moon’s surface

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11th September 1978: Last ever death from smallpox

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10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

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9th September 1947: Moth ‘bug’ discovered inside a Harvard computer

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5th September 1698: Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

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4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

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3rd September 1939: Second World War begins

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30th August 1918: Lenin shot in a failed assassination attempt

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29th August 1911: Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California

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28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr declares ‘I Have a Dream’

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27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed

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26th August 1895: The world’s first major AC power plant began producing electricity at Niagara Falls

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25th August 1916: The U.S. National Park Service signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson

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24th August AD 79: Mount Vesuvius destroys Pompeii & Herculaneum

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23rd August 1970: Start of the Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker walkout in U.S. history

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22nd August 1485: Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth

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21st August 1911: The Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre

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18th August 1612: Trial of the Pendle Witches begins

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17th August 1807: The North River Steamboat was launched between New York and Albany

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16th August 1819: Protesters killed in the Peterloo Massacre

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15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London

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14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

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13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

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12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

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10th August 1846: President James K. Polk signs legislation to establish the Smithsonian Institution

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9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the USA

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8th August 1925: More than 50,000 members of the Ku Klux Klan stage a march in Washington D.C.

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7th August 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by US Congress

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6th August 1945: The USA drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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4th August 1914: Woodrow Wilson proclaims US neutrality in the First World War

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3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

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2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

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1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched

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31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins

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28th July 1932: Bonus Marchers forcibly evicted from Washington D.C. by the Army

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26th July 1948: Truman abolished racial segregation in the US military with Executive Order 9981

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20th July 1969: Apollo 11 lands on the moon

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18th July 1966: The Hough Riots begin in Cleveland, Ohio

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16th July 1945: USA tests the first ever nuclear bomb, code-named ‘Trinity’

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14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille

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12th July 1862: Creation of the Congressional Medal of Honor

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10th July 1913: Highest recorded temperature on Earth

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8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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6th July 1892: The Homestead Strike sees Pinkerton agents fight striking steelworkers

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30th June 1934: Nazi party purged on Night of the Long Knives

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29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

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28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

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27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea

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26th June 1963: JFK declares ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’

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25th June 1678: Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a PhD

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24th June 1374: Dance Plague breaks out in Aachen, Germany

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22nd June 1633: Galileo forced to recant his belief in heliocentrism

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20th June 1789: National Assembly swears the Tennis Court Oath

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19th June 1949: The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race takes place at Charlotte Speedway

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18th June 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte defeated at the Battle of Waterloo

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17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal

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16th June 1958: Execution of Hungarian Communist leader Imre Nagy

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15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain

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14th June 1777: Stars and Stripes adopted as the flag of the USA by the Second Continental Congress

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13th June 1966: Miranda Warning introduced after US Supreme Court says suspects must be told their rights

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12th June 1942: Anne Frank receives a diary for her 13th birthday

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11th June 1963: Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death to protest again the government of Ngô Đình Diệm

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10th June 1916: Battle of Mecca signals the start of the Arab Revolt

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9th June 68: Emperor Nero commits suicide

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6th June 1944: D-Day landings mark the start of Operation Overlord

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4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Davison hit by a racehorse at Epsom Derby

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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz

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2nd June 1946: Italians vote to turn their country into a republic

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31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the last entry in his diary

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29th May 1453: The Fall of Constantinople

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27th May 1199: Coronation of King John in Westminster Abbey

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25th May 1961: Kennedy announces plan for manned moon landing

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24th May 1943: Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, transferred to Auschwitz

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23rd May 1915: Italy enters WW1 on the side of the Triple Entente

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22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

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21st May 1927 & 1932: First male & female solo transatlantic flights

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20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance

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19th May 1536: Execution of Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London

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17th May 1902: Ancient Antikythera Mechanism ‘computer’ identified

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15th May 1928: Mickey Mouse’s first cartoon appearance

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12th May 1846: The Donner Party begin their ill-fated journey to California

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11th May 1997: Deep Blue chess computer beats Garry Kasparov

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9th May 1887: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opens in London

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8th May 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea ends during the War in the Pacific

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7th May 1794: Robespierre establishes Cult of the Supreme Being

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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

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5th May 1260: Kublai Khan declared Mongol Emperor

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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

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3rd May 1830: First timetabled passenger railway begins service

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2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR

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1st May 1952: Mr Potato Head goes on sale for the first time

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30th April 1963: The Bristol Bus Boycott against discriminatory recruitment begins

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29th April 1975: USA leaves Vietnam in Operation Frequent Wind

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28th April 1789: The crew of HMS Bounty mutiny against Captain William Bligh

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27th April 1509: Entire republic of Venice excommunicated by the Pope

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26th April 1478: The Pazzi family launch their failed plot against the Medici family

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25th April 1792: First execution using the guillotine

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24th April 1916: The Easter Rising begins in Dublin

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23rd April 1985: Coca Cola replace formula with ‘New Coke’

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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

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21st April 753 BC: Traditional date of the founding of Rome

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20th April 1902: Marie and Pierre Curie prove the existence of radium

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19th April 1770: Captain Cook’s voyage sights Australia

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18th April 1506: Construction begins on Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome

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17th April 1492: Christopher Columbus given funding by Spain to explore across the Atlantic

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16th April 1917: Lenin arrives back in Russia in the sealed train after a decade in exile

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15th April 1755: Dr Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary published

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14th April 70 CE: Titus begins the Siege of Jerusalem

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13th April 1970: Explosion causes crisis on board Apollo 13

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12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge

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11th April 1961: The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Israel

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10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy

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9th April 1865: Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant

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8th April 1904: Times Square in New York given its name

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7th April 1498: Savonarola meets to take part in a trial by fire

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6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place

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5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England

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4th April 1968: Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee

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3rd April 1882: Outlaw Jesse James shot by Robert Ford

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2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with Argentine invasion

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1st April 1938: Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War

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31st March 1905: Wilhelm II provokes the First Moroccan Crisis

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30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

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29th March 1973: Final US troops withdraw from Vietnam

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28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

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27th March 1963: Dr Beeching publishes his first British Rail report

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26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store

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25th March 1957: Treaty of Rome establishes the EEC

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23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey last to be dissolved by Henry VIII

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22nd March 1895: The Lumière brothers stage their first film screening in Paris

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21st March 1556: Thomas Cranmer executed for heresy

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20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

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19th March 1962: Bob Dylan releases his eponymous debut album

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18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

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17th March 1766: First Saint Patrick’s Day parade

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16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

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15th March 44BCE: Assassination of Julius Caesar

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14th March 1958: Perry Como awarded the first gold record by the RIAA

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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated in Saint Petersburg

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12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player

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11th March 1918: First confirmed case of ‘Spanish Flu’

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9th March 1841: US Supreme court rules on the Amistad slave case

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8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

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7th March 1936: Germany remilitarises the Rhineland

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5th March 1946: Churchill makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech

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4th March 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland opened by the future King Edward VII

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3rd March 1861: Tsar Alexander II signs the Emancipation Manifesto

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2nd March 1791: Frenchman Claude Chappe sends the first message by semaphore machine

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1st March 1872: Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park

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29th February 1504: Christopher Columbus uses knowledge of a lunar eclipse to secure supplies while stranded on Jamaica

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28th February 1993: The Waco siege against the Branch Davidian Church begin in Texas

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27th February 1996 – Pokémon first launched in Japan

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26th February 1935: Hitler formally establishes the Luftwaffe in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles

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25th February 1570: Elizabeth I of England excommunicated by Pope Pius V

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24th February 1868: US President Andrew Johnson impeached for defying the Tenure of Office Act

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23rd February 303: Start of Emperor Diocletian’s ‘Great Persecution’

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22nd February 1797: The last invasion of Britain takes place, leading to the Battle of Fishguard

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21st February 1613: Romanov dynasty begins under Michael I of Russia

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20th February 1472: Orkney and Shetland Isles given to Scotland as a wedding dowry

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18th February 1885: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” published in the United States

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17th February 1966: The Beach Boys start recording Good Vibrations

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16th February 1937: Organic chemist Wallace Carothers is awarded a patent for nylon

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15th February 1971: The UK and Ireland decimalise their currency

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14th February 1990: Voyager 1 creates the ‘Pale Blue Dot’ image of Earth

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13th February 1689: William and Mary become co-regents

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11th February 1979: Iranian Revolution overthrows the Shah

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10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’

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9th February 1969: First test flight of Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’

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8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

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7th February 1964: The Beatles’ first visit to the USA

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5th February 1924: The BBC ‘pips’ first broadcast to mark the time

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3rd February 1959: The Day the Music Died

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2nd February 1925: Great Race of Mercy delivers diptheria antitoxin to Nome by dogsled relay

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1st February 1968: Viet Cong Captain Bảy Lốp executed by General Loan

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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

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30th January 1649: Charles I beheaded at Banqueting House

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29th January 1942: Desert Island Discs, the longest-running radio show in the UK, first broadcast

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28th January 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

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27th January 1967: The Outer Space Treaty that is the basis for all space laws opened for signatures

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26th January 1998: Bill Clinton denies ‘sexual relations with that woman’

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25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

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24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard

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23rd January 1900: British troops launch a nighttime attack on Spion Kop in the Second Boer War

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22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg

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21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

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20th January 1942: Nazi leaders meet at the Wannsee Conference

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19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

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18th January 1871: Wilhelm I declared German Emperor

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17th January 1944: Allies launch the Battle of Monte Cassino during the Second World War

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16th January 27 BCE: Octavian becomes Augustus, Roman Emperor

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15th January 1919: Great Molasses Flood kills 21 people in Boston

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14th January 1943: Churchill and Roosevelt meet at the Casablanca Conference

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13th January 1842: William Brydon, the sole survivor of 4,500 British soldiers, arrives at Jalalabad in Afghanistan

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12th January 1895: Foundation of the National Trust

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11th January 1569: First recorded lottery drawn in England under Elizabeth I

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10th January 1920: League of Nations officially founded

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9th January 1349: Jews massacred in Basel during the Black Death persecutions

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8th January 1918: Woodrow Wilson announces the Fourteen Points

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7th January 1785: First aerial crossing of the English Channel completed in a hydrogen balloon

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6th January 1066: Harold Godwinson crowned king of England

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5th January 1066: Death of Edward the Confessor sparks a succession crisis

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4th January 1847: Samuel Colt receives the first government order for his firearms

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3rd January 1870: Construction begins on the Brooklyn Bridge

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2nd January 1981: Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, arrested

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1st January 1772: First traveller’s cheques, known as “circular notes”, put on sale

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31st December 1935: Monopoly board game patented

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30th December 1993: Israel and the Vatican City begin diplomatic relations

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29th December 1170: Thomas Becket murdered in Canterbury Cathedral

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28th December 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes his discovery of X-rays

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27th December 537: Hagia Sophia basilica inaugurated

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26th December 1973: Horror film The Exorcist first released in cinemas

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25th December 1066: William the Conquerer crowned king of England

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24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

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23rd December 1823: The Night Before Christmas first published

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22nd December 1894: Alfred Dreyfus found guilty of treason in France

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21st December 1913: First modern crossword puzzle printed

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20th December 1924: Adolf Hitler released from Landsberg Prison

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19th December 1843: A Christmas Carol first published

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18th December 1898: The world’s first officially recognised land speed record is set

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17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight

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16th December 1773: The Boston Tea Party throws a shipment of tea into Boston Harbor

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15th December 1933: 21st Amendment ends prohibition in the USA

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14th December 1287: St Lucia’s Flood kills over 50,000 people around the North Sea

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13th December 1937: The Nanking Massacre begins

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12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

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11th December 1936: Abdication of King Edward VIII

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10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures

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9th December 1965: Charlie Brown Christmas first broadcast

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8th December 1660: The first woman appears on a professional stage in England in Othello

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7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

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6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

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5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia

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4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

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3rd December 1910: First neon light installed at the Paris Motor Show

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2nd December 1954: US Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate

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1st December 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama

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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

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29th November 1781: Over 132 slaves thrown from the ‘Zong’ ship

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28th November 1893: New Zealand women vote for the first time in a national election

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27th November 1095: Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade

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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

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25th November 1936: Anti-Comintern Pact signed by Germany and Japan

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24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

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23rd November 1963: First episode of Doctor Who broadcast

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22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

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21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announces the phonograph

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20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

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19th November 1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

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18th November 1987: 31 people killed in the Kings Cross fire on the London Underground

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17th November 1558: Queen Elizabeth I’s reign begins after the death of Mary I

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16th November 1990: Milli Vanilli stripped of Grammy Award for not singing on their album

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15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France

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14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

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13th November 1002: Æthelred the Unready orders the St Brice’s Day Massacre

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12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

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11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

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10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II

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7th November 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution

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6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

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5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot

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4th November 1839: The Newport Rising armed rebellion takes place in south Wales

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3rd November 1957: Laika the dog becomes first animal in orbit

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2nd November 1868: New Zealand becomes the first country to use standardised time

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1st November 1911: First ever aerial bombing from a plane takes place during the Italo-Turkish War

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31st October 1922: The cabinet of Benito Mussolini formally takes power in Italy

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30th October 1938: War of the Worlds by Orson Welles is broadcast

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29th October 1618: Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded for treason against James I in the Main Plot

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28th October 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis ends with USSR’s agreement to remove missiles

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27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

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26th October 1860: Garibaldi hands southern Italy to Victor Emmanuel II

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25th October 1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr. becomes first black general in the US military

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24th October 1929: Wall Street Crash begins on ‘Black Thursday’

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23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

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22nd October 1895: Granville-Paris express train crashes through a wall in Paris

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21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster

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20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March

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19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama

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18th October 1922: British Broadcasting Company established

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17th October 1933: Einstein moves to the USA after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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16th October 1793: The Execution of Marie Antoinette

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15th October 1764: Edward Gibbon first considers The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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14th October 1066: Battle of Hastings fought on Senlac Hill

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13th October 1792: Cornerstone laid for the White House

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12th October 1810: First Oktoberfest held in Munich

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11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

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10th October 1903: Foundation of Women’s Social & Political Union

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9th October 1410: The Prague Astronomical Clock first noted in a medieval document

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8th October 1829: Robert Stephenson’s locomotive Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials

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7th October 1879: Germany and Austria Hungary form the Dual Alliance

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6th October 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat assassinated by terrorists

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5th October 1936: The Jarrow March departs for London

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4th October 1582: Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII

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3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

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2nd October 1187: Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

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1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

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30th September 1967: BBC Radio 1 begins broadcasting

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29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police begins operating in London

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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

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27th September 1590: Pope Urban VII dies, ending the the shortest papal reign in history

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26th September 1923: Germany ends the strikes in the Ruhr

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25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable

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24th September 1946: ‘Containment’ first suggested in a US report

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23rd September 1338: First naval battle with artillery takes place in the Hundred Years’ War

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22nd September 1980: Iraq-Iran war begins

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21st September 1915: Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge’s last private owner, wins it at auction

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20th September 1066: Harald Hardrada wins Battle of Fulford

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19th September 1879: The Blackpool Illuminations turned on for the first time

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18th September 1931: Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese bomb

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17th September 1859: Joshua Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States

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16th September 1978: Filming begins on Monty Python’s Life of Brian

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15th September 1830: William Huskisson killed on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

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14th September 1814: USA’s national anthem lyrics written as the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry”

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13th September 1501: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David

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12th September 1919: Hitler joins the German Workers Party

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11th September 1789: Alexander Hamilton appointed US Secretary of the Treasury

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10th September 1989: Hungary allows East Germans into Austria

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9th September 1956: Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show

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8th September 1888: First ever Football League matches take place

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7th September 1940: The Nazi German Luftwaffe launches The Blitz

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6th September 1972: Olympic athletes killed in the Munich massacre

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5th September 1793: The Reign of Terror begins in France

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4th September 1957: Black students denied entry to Little Rock High School

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3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

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2nd September 1666: Great Fire of London starts in Pudding Lane

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1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

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31st August 1907: The Anglo-Russian Entente is signed, forming the Triple Entente

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29th August 1842: The First Opium War ends when Britain and China sign the Treaty of Nanking

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26th August 1789: Adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man in France

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25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel

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23rd August 1944: King Michael of Romania leads a coup d’etat against Ion Antonescu

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20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico

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