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On This Day in History ~ February ~ février ~ febbraio ~ február
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Feb1 |
1971 |
Wireless licenses were abolished in the UK | |
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Feb2 |
1986 |
In Liechtenstein women voted for the first time in a general election |
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1976 |
The Queen opened the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham | ||
| 1914 | The Cub Scouts were founded | ||
| 1852 | The first public flushing lavatory for men was opened in London's Fleet Street | ||
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Feb3 |
2002 |
In the shipping forecast Finistere became FitzRoy, after Sir Admiral FitzRoy founder of the Meteorological Office | |
1966 |
Russia's Luna IX made the first controlled landing on the moon | ||
1962 |
Fidel Castro was excommunicated |
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1959 |
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in an air crash | ||
1919 |
The League of Nations first met | ||
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Feb4 |
1953 |
Sweet rationing ended in the UK | |
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1920 |
The comic actor Norman Wisdom was born | |
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Feb5 |
1922 |
The Reader's Digest was first published | |
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Feb6 |
 Bill Haley and the Comets
played their first London gig |
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Feb7 |
1984 |
Captain Bruce McCandless became the first astronaut to fly free in space without a life-line | |
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1965 |
George Harrison had his tonsils removed | ||
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