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The Bank of England launched a new £20 note, featuring the Scottish economist Adam Smith. It was the first note in the new Series F banknotes |
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Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself. |
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Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy. |
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Indias Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader. |
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The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona, & were seen by hundreds of people, & millions on television. And are now, hotly debated in controversy. |
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The Dunblane Massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children and 1 adult teacher are shot dead by a spree killer who then commits suicide. |
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A major blizzard occurs, which is later declared the storm of the 20th century. |
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An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey. |
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The United States Justice Department announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. |
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A geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Quebec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours. |
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Microsoft has its Initial public offering. |
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The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup detat in Grenada. |
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Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. |
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Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the USA, proposes a document, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks in Guantanamo Bay, to Secretary of Defense Robert Mcnamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. |
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Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista. |
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Battle of Ði?n Biên Ph?: Viet Minh forces attack the French. |
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World War II: In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700. |
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The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. |
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Russo-Finnish Winter War ended. |
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Great Depression: Banks in the United States begin to re-open after the Presidentially mandated "bank holiday". |
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The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory. |
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Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution. |
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Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China. |
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Boer War: British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. |
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In France, length of a workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law. |
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San Diego State University founded. |
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The siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins (ends on January 26, 1885). |
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Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.) |
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American Civil War: The Confederate States of America reluctantly agrees to the use of African American troops. |
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American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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Felix Mendelssohns Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist. |
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William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus. |
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Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard. |
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Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II. |
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