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1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first what of England ?
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1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become what ?
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1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of which city ?
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1790 – France is divided into how many départements ?
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1791 – The Constitutional Act of 1791 is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of which country into Upper and Lower regions ?
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1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in which colony ?
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1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in the east of which city ?
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1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, killing around 300 people with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to how far inland ?
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1960 – The French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in which city, killing 100 ?
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1966 – In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is more popular than who ?
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1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of which heavenly body ?
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2012 – A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump, killing at least 250 people in which African city ?
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1958 – Patricia Heaton, American comedy actress, known for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" is born in Bay Village on the shores of which lake ?
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1977 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in which city ?
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2018 – Former MI6 spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter are poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent in which English city ?