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February 7th - Maastricht Treaty

February 6th - Justice Mary Gaudron

February 5th - Tybee Bomb

February 4th - Forty-seven Ronin

February 3rd - Tulip Mania Collapses

February 2nd - Alexander Selkirk Rescued

February 1st - US Supreme Court

On This Day - November Archive

November 30th - Thriller Released

November 29th - Pong Released

November 28th - Universal Epoch

November 27th - Declaration of the First Crusade

November 26th - Vlad III Becomes Ruler of Wallachia

November 25th - Dynamite Patented

November 24th - On The Origin Of Species

November 23rd - Life Magazine Published

November 22nd - Blackbeard Killed

November 21st - Jonathan Pollard Arrested for Spying

November 20th - New Jersey Ratifies US Bill of Rights

November 19th - Ford Edsel Discontinued

November 18th - Jonestown Massacre

November 17th - Lunokhod 1 Lands On The Moon

November 16th - LSD Synthesised

November 15th - Intel 4004

November 14th - Around the World In 80 Days

November 13th - James Braid Learns About Hypnotism

November 12th - Loch Ness Monster Photographed

November 11th - Gottfried Leibniz Demonstrates Calculus

November 10th - Dr Livingstone Found

November 9th - Egica Passes Harsh Law

November 8th - Louvre Opened as a Museum

November 7th - Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid Killed

November 6th - Australian Republic Referendum

November 5th - Gunpowder Plot

November 4th - Hara Takashi Assassinated

November 3rd - Olympe de Gouges Guillotined

November 2nd - Balfour Declaration

November 1st - The Sistine Chapel