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Justin Gatlin ties the fastest 100m sprint ever in a time of 9.77 seconds in Doha, Qatar. |
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Former President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. |
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The Tate Modern art gallery opens in London. |
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British Labour party leader John Smith dies at 55:
The Labour leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
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During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. Krohn, an ultraconservative Spanish priest opposed to the Vatican II reforms, decided that the Pope must be killed for being an "agent of Moscow." |
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Second IRA protester dies in jail:
Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
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Row rocks Rolling Stone wedding -
The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, marries his fiancee Bianca Perez Morena de Macias after a row with the media nearly halts proceedings. |
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Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey. |
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The first-ever official County Cricket Championship match begins. Yorkshire beat Gloucestershire by eight wickets at Bristol. George Ulyett scores the first century in the competition. |
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The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi. |
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