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| 1930 | 1st Flight to Australia Johnson, Amy |  |
| Croydon Takes off in a gypsy moth seeking to become the 1st woman to fly solo to Australia
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| 1536 | Arrest Boleyn, Anne | |
| Tower of London Richard Page is arrested for infidelities with Anne Boleyn
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| Tower of London Thomas Wyatt is arrested for infidelities with Anne Boleyn
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| 1536 | Arrest Henry VIII | |
| Tower of London Richard Page is arrested for infidelities with Anne Boleyn
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| Tower of London Thomas Wyatt is arrested for high treason
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| 1536 | Arrest Page, Richard | |
| Tower of London Arrested for infidelities with Anne Boleyn
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| 1536 | Arrest Wyatt, Thomas | |
| Tower of London Arrested for infidelities with Anne Boleyn
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| 1650 | Arrest Graham, James | |
| Ardvreck Taken from Ardvreck Castle & handed over to General Leslie
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| 1811 | Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro Massena, Andre | |
| Fuentes d'Onoro Defeated in battle by Wellington during the siege of the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo
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| 1942 | Battle of Midway Nagumo, Chuichi | |
| Midway Japan loses its initiative in the Pacific
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| Midway Japan must now concentrate on defending the Southern Resources Area
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| 1818 | Birth Marx, Karl Heinrich | |
| Birth of Karl Marx
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| 1948 | Birth Ward, Bill | |
| Birmingham Birth of Bill Ward
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| 1625 | Burial Charles I | |
| Westminster Abbey Attends the burial of James I in state as the chief mourner at Westminster Abbey
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| 1625 | Burial James I | |
| Westminster Abbey Charles I attends in state as the chief mourner at Westminster Abbey
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| 1979 | Chancellor Howe, Geoffrey | |
| London Appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer
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| 1789 | Constitution Louis XVI | |
| The Third Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
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| 1949 | Council Europe Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| The Council is founded by the treaty of London agreed to by the ten original members, the treaty is now known as the Statute of the Council of Europe
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| The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946
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| 1821 | Death Napoleon I | |
| St Helena Death of Napoleon I
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| 1958 | Death Abetz, Otto | |
| Death of Otto Abetz
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| 1981 | Death Sands, Bobby | |
| Belfast Death of Bobby Sands, on 66th day of hunger strike
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| 2006 | Death Pitney, Gene | |
| Cardiff Death of Gene Pitney, found dead in his hotel room in Cardiff
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| 1985 | Diplomacy Kohl, Helmut | |
| Bitburg Reagan visits the Bitburg Nazi cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Khol
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| 1980 | Diplomacy Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| London The SAS storms the Iranian Embassy
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| 1982 | Diplomacy Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| Emergency meeting of full British cabinet approves Peruvian peace plan
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| London Full cabinet approval of the Peruvian peace plan
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| 1989 | Election Thatcher, Margaret Hilda | |
| Glamorgan Labour win the Vale of Glamorgan by-election
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| 2005 | Election Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton | |
| Labour wins the election with 37% of the votes cast & 356 seats
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| 2005 | Election Galloway, George | |
| The former Labour anti-Iraq war rebel wins the Bethnal Green seat
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| 2005 | Election Kennedy, Charles | |
| With 62 seats, the Liberal Democrats have 10 more MPs than in 2001
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| 2005 | Election Kilroy-Silk, Robert | |
| Erewash Comes 4th in Erewash, 20,000 votes behind the Labour candidate
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| 1789 | Estates General Louis XVI | |
| Versailles The Third Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
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| Versailles The Third Estate meets for the 1st time since 1614
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| 1949 | European Union Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| The Council is founded by the treaty of London agreed to by the ten original members, the treaty is now known as the Statute of the Council of Europe
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| The Council of Europe is founded following a speech given by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich on 19 September 1946
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| 1993 | Exile Nadir, Asil | |
| London The chairman of Polly Peck jumps bail & flees to Cyprus
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| 1985 | Government Reagan, Ronald Wilson | |
| Reagan visits the Bitburg Nazi cemetery with Chancellor Helmut Khol
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| 1941 | Ironclad Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| Diego Suarez An amphibious invasion of the Vichy French colony of Madagascar
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| Diego Suarez The 1st large amphibious assault made by British forces since the Dardanelles
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| 1921 | London Ultimatum Wirth, Karl Joseph | |
| The London Ultimatum sets the total sum of the war indemnity at 132 billion marks
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| 1912 | Man of Steel Stalin, Joseph | |
| Losif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili took the name Stalin, meaning "man of steel"
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| 1919 | May Fourth Movement Rulin, Cao | |
| Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang Government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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| 1919 | May Fourth Movement Zongxiang, Zhang | |
| Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang Government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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| 1919 | May Fourth Movement Zongyu, Lu | |
| Paris Chinese representatives in Paris refuse to sign on the peace treaty, the May Fourth Movement win the initial victory, more symbolic than anything else, Japan retains the Shandong Peninsula and Pacific Islands won in World War I
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| Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang Government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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| 1917 | Minister Dan, Fedor Ivanovich | |
| Appointed Minister for Posts & Telegraph in the 1st coalition Government
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| 2006 | ODPM Prescott, John Leslie | |
| In a Cabinet reshuffle Prescott's departmental responsibilities are transferred to Ruth Kelly, as Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, following revelations about his private life and a poor performance by Labour in UK
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| 1917 | Prime Minister Lvov | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of the Provisional Government
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| In practice subordinate to the Petrograd Soviet & Kerensky
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| 1789 | Reform Louis XVI | |
| Versailles The Third Estate demands voting by head instead of by Estate
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| 1921 | Reparations Wirth, Karl Joseph | |
| The London Ultimatum sets the total sum of the war indemnity at 132 billion marks
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| 1941 | Restoration Haile Selassie I | |
| Addis Ababa Re-enters the capital, Addis Ababa
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| 1919 | Rule of Shandong Zongyu, Lu | |
| Shandong Peninsula Chinese representatives in Paris refuse to sign on the peace treaty, the May Fourth Movement win the initial victory, more symbolic than anything else, Japan retains the Shandong Peninsula and Pacific Islands won in World War I
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| 1979 | Secretary Whitelaw, William | |
| Appointed Home Secretary
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| 1811 | Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo Massena, Andre | |
| Ciudad Rodrigo Defeated in battle by Wellington during the siege of the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo
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| 1215 | Siege of Northampton Walter | |
| Northampton Leads a rebel force against Northampton Castle but it is well defended by King John
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| 1264 | Siege of Northampton Henry III | |
| Northampton The Royal Army captures Simon Montfort & captures his head quarters at Northampton
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| 1904 | Siege of Port Arthur Nozu, Michitsura | |
| Port Arthur The Japanese encircle Port Arthur
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| 1959 | Silver Beatles Harrison, George | |
| The Silver Beetles fail an audition to back Billy Fury & are chosen to back Johny Gentle on a Scottish tour
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| 1959 | Silver Beatles Lennon, John Winston | |
| The Silver Beetles fail an audition to back Billy Fury & are chosen to back Johny Gentle on a Scottish tour
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| 1949 | Statute Council of Europe Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer | |
| The Council is founded by the treaty of London agreed to by the ten original members, the treaty is now known as the Statute of the Council of Europe
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| 1660 | Succession Charles II | |
| London Final day of the Interregnum, rule without a monarch
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| 1292 | Succession Adolf of Nassa | |
| Succeeds as Holy Roman Emperor
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| 1646 | Surrender Charles I | |
| Newark Surrenders to the Scots at Newark after defeat at Stowe-on-the-Wold
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| 1527 | Treaty of Greenwich Henry VIII | |
| Greenwich The treaty of Greenwich is signed with France
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