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1769 English explorer Captain James Cook aboard Endeavour landed in
New Zealand.
1905 * Helen Wills-Moody, US tennis champion who won Wimbledon eight
times.
1910 * Barbara Castle, British Labour Party politician.
1927 Al Jolson starred in the first full length film to make use of
sound, The Jazz Singer.
1928 Chang Kai-shek became President of China.
1930 * Richie Benaud, former Australian cricket captain and
television commentator.
1939 * Melvyn Bragg, English author and television producer and
presenter.
1953 Britain sent troops to Guiana in order to preserve the peace.
1973 The Yom Kippur War began when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel.
1981 Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo.
1985 A police officer was stabbed to death by a mob during riots at
the Broadwater Farm housing estate in North London.
1986 Fears were growing for the missing nuclear technician Mordechai
Vanunu who disappeared in London after revealing details of Israel's
nuclear weapons programme.
1989 Bette Davis died in France at age 81.
2000 Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigned under mounting
pressure after allegations of vote-rigging.
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