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1792 * Charles Babbage, English inventor of a calculating machine in
1823.
1893 * Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Communist leader and founder of the
party in 1921.
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium.
1906 The world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang was
shown in Australia.
1908 'Galveston Jack' Johnson became the first black boxer to win
the world heavyweight title.
1914 * Richard Widmark, US actor who starred in the film The Alamo
(1960).
1932 Dick Whittington became the first pantomime seen on television.
1940 * Phil Spector, US songwriter and record producer.
1943 The last major German battleship, the Scharnhorst was sunk by
the Royal Navy.
1961 The author Frank Richards, of the Billy Bunter stories, died.
1970 British Olympic medallist Lillian Board MBE died after losing
her battle against a virulent form of cancer.
1972 The man who authorised the use of nuclear weapons on Japan, US
President Harry S. Trueman, died.
1990 Desert Orchid won the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park for
a record fourth time.
1990 Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, upheld the
Rushdie fatwa.
2004 An earthquake under the Indian Ocean generated the biggest
tsunami the world has seen for at least 40 years. The tsunami killed
more than 250,000 people in 13 countries. At least 128,000 people
died in Indonesia alone.
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