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2002. Russian Spetsnaz storm the Moscow Theatre, where Chechen terrorists had taken the audience and performers hostage three days earlier; 50 terrorists and 150 hostages die in the assault.
1947. Hillary Clinton born.
1881. Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
1879. Leon Trotsky born.
1795. Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the head of France’s Army
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John Cleese 84
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva President of Brazil 78
1964 Sonny Bono (29) & Cher Sarkisian (18) married.
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Marty morrisey is 65 today. What will he get for his birthday? Maybe a new car. Happy birthday marty, all invited to the marty party?
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1922 Neil Blaney, born in Fanad, County Donegal.
1897 Joseph Goebbels Born in Rheydt, Prussia, Germany
1704 John Byng, English admiral born in Southill, Bedfordshire, England. Executed by firing squad at 52 for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca, (d. 1757). The Admiral of whom Voltaire remarked, “In this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
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Jimmy saville, the bastard. 12 years dead today. Shocking that he got away with what he done and the truth not found out until he was dead.
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The Greysteele Massacre occured on this day in 1993. 8 people shot dead in the rising sun bar.
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1517 Martin Luther posted on a church door in Wittenberg, his Ninety-five Theses, that turned into the Protestant Reformation.
1993 The Maastricht Treaty entered into force.
2011 The world population reaches 7 billion.
2020 Sean Connery died at age 90.
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November 1st 1920, kevin barry executed. Just before he faced the hangman, in his dreary prison cell, british soldiers tortured barry, just because he would not tell, the names of his brave comrades and other things they wished to know. Turn informer or we'll kill you, kevin barry answered no.
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1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solmonic Dynasty
1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation officially launched its first television channel, which was also the world's first regular TV service.
1950 George Bernard Shaw, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, died at age 94.
1960 A jury ruled that D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene, allowing Penguin Books to publish the work.
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Centenary of the birth of Tomás Ó Fiaich in Cullyhanna, Catholic Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, who died 8 May 1990 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France.
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