1994 - Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides
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1984 - British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon
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1974 - The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere
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1969 - The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place
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1955 - Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
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1924 - The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison
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1886 - A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting
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1725 - Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia
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1819 - John Ruskin, English writer and artist
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1828 - Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'
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1925 - Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
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1931 - James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
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1820 - William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
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1920 - Lana Turner, American film actress
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1932 - John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones'
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