The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year

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James Owen

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2018

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1970 the Nigeria-Biafra war concluded with Biafra’s surrender after the deaths of more than one million people.

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1973 President Nixon halted US bombing in North Vietnam after peace talks in Paris.

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2001 the Wikipedia website went online.

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2009 US Airways Flight 1549 safely crash-landed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.

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1604 the Hampton Court Conference ended, in which King James I authorised a new translation of the Bible.

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1920 prohibition of the sale of alcohol began in America.

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1944 General Dwight D Eisenhower arrived in England as supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe.

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1969 21-year-old student Jan Palach set fire to himself in Prague in protest at the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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1970 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi became the leader of Libya, following a coup against King Idris.

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1979 the Shah of Iran was forced into exile in Egypt.

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1773 Captain Cook’s Resolution crossed the Antarctic Circle, the first ship to do so.

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1874 conjoined Thai-American brothers Chang and Eng Bunker, regarded as the original Siamese twins, died within two hours of one another, aged 62, in North Carolina.

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1912 Captain Robert Scott reached the South Pole, to discover his rival Roald Amundsen had reached it first.

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1983 the BBC introduced breakfast television.

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1991 allied forces launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraqi positions following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

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1995 more than 6,400 people were killed when an earthquake struck Kobe, Japan.

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1778 Captain Cook sighted the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii).

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1813 Joseph Farwell Glidden, farmer who patented the first commercially viable barbed wire, born in New Hampshire.

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1871 William of Prussia was proclaimed the first German Emperor.

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1882 AA Milne, children’s writer, was born.

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1884 Arthur Ransome, children’s writer, was born.

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1911 piloted by Lt Eugene B Ely, the first aircraft to land on a ship touched down on the cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbour.

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1919 the Versailles Peace Conference opened.

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1989 Bruce Chatwin, travel writer (In Patagonia) and novelist, died in Nice aged 48.

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1736 James Watt, designer of the steam engine that largely powered the Industrial Revolution, was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire.

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