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1610 Galileo discovered the moons of Jupiter with his newly invented
telescope.
1785 The English Channel was crossed by air for the first time by a
hot air balloon.
1789 The first national elections were held in the USA.
1844 * Marie-Bernard Soubirous, Saint Bernadette of Lourdes.
1912 * Charles Addams, New York cartoonist and author of the Addams
Family.
1927 The first trans-Atlantic telephone service between New York and
London opened.
1937 * Ian La Frenais, British screenwriter and producer.
1953 Harry Truman announced that the USA had developed the hydrogen
bomb.
1964 * Nicholas Cage, US film actor.
1965 Identical twin brothers Ronald and Reginald Kray were in
custody charged with running a
protection racket.
1975 OPEC raised crude oil prices by 10% leading to world economic
inflation.
1976 A British naval frigate HMS Andromeda was involved in another
collision with an Icelandic gunboat
the Thor in the Atlantic.
1979 Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh,
overthrowing Pol Pot's Khmer
Rouge government.
1980 Indians voted Indira Gandhi back into power less than three
years after rejecting her "emergency
dictatorship".
1989 Japan's Emperor Hirohito died.
1990 For safety, the Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to the public for
the first time since 1275.
2000 Former Cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken was released from jail
after serving less than half of
his 18-month sentence.
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