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1824 Beethoven's 9th Symphony premiered in Vienna.
1833 * Johannes Brahms, German composer and pianist of Concerto No.
1 in D Minor (1957).
1888 George Eastman patented his Kodak box camera.
1901 * Gary Cooper, US actor who won an Oscar for the film High Noon
(1952).
1909 * Edward Land, US physicist and inventor of the Polaroid camera
and process (1947).
1915 A German submarine torpedoed the liner Lusitania killing 1400
people off the Irish coast.
1919 * Maria Eve Duarte Perón, 'Evita', legendary Argentinean
political leader.
1945 Germany signed an unconditional surrender finally ending six
years of war in Europe. The Germans surrendered to Generals
Montgomery and Bedell Smith at Rheims.
1956 The Health Minister, RH Turton, rejected calls for a government
campaign against smoking, saying that no ill-effects have been
proven.
1960 Leonid Brezhnev became head of the USSR.
1965 White voters in the African colony of Rhodesia supported Prime
Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front which was demanding
independence from the UK.
1976 Italy's worst ever earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter
scale killed more than 550 people and left 80,000 homeless.
1994 Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream was recovered a few months
after it had been stolen.
1999 During action against Yugoslavia, NATO jets mistakenly bombed
the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three and injuring 20.
2000 Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia’s president.
2001 To protect Exmoor from infection, more than 1,000 cattle on two
farms near Exmoor were slaughtered, even though they show no sign of
foot-and-mouth disease.
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