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1606 – The Janszoon voyage of 1605–06 becomes the first European expedition to set foot on Australia, although it is mistaken as a part of which island ?
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1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at which London Theatre ?
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1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing which US National Park.?
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1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry, UK, which leads directly to the development of what ?
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1980 – Egypt and which other country establish full diplomatic relations ?
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1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses how much ?
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2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in which Asian city for the first time ?
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1947 – Sandie Shaw, English singer was born in Essex on this day, apart from her music, how was her act memorable ?
Performing with bare feet
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Running around the stage
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1616 - The Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his belief in what ?
The Earth being round rather than flat
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The existance of other moons on other planets
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That all things fall at the same acceleration rate
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The Earth orbiting the Sun
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2013 – A hot air balloon crashes, killing 19 people, near which African city ?
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1863 - Abraham Lincoln signs an Act, establishing a single national what ?
Cost per Mile of Rail Travel
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1881 - P&O's SS Ceylon sails from Liverpool to begins the world's first pleasure cruise to do what ?
Sail to Australia and New Zealand
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Sail across the Atlantic
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1952 - Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that Britain has its own what ?
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1997 – David Doyle, American actor dies of a heart attack at 67. For which role is he most famous ?
Alfred in "Batman and Robin"
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Bosley in "Charlies Angels"
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Higgins in "Magnum P.I."
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Sheriff Rosco Coltrane in "The Dukes of Hazzard"
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1975 - What type of transplant is televised for the first time ?