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Events in History

Twenty random things that happened on this day...

  • Leonid Mossejev becomes European marathon champ (2:11:57.5) (1978)
  • Indonesian president Suharto visits Netherlands (1970)
  • John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti (1891)
  • British annex Natal (South Africa) (1900)
  • St. Louis Olympics closes (1904)
  • 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) (1935)
  • Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Mariners-7, Red Sox-7 (1981)
  • Netherlands government in exile of Gerbrandy forms London (1940)
  • British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) (1943)
  • New York Met Gary Carter hits 3 consecutive home runs in a game (1985)
  • Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line (1918)
  • KTCA TV channel 2 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting (1957)
  • Chris Evert defeats 15-year-old Monica Seles for her 101st and last U.S. Tennis Open singles victory (1989)
  • Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland (1939)
  • Qatar regains complete independence from Britain (1971)
  • South Africa adopts constitution (1984)
  • French troops liberate Lyon (1944)
  • King William's War in America ends with Treaty of Ryswick (1697)
  • Slowinski and Gage discovers 2^1257787-1 (34th known Mersenne prime) (1996)
  • 30 Jews are mnassacred at King Richard I (lion hearted) coronation (1189)

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