| Year | Item | Detail |
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| 2002 |
Euro Currency |
Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve European Community countries |
| 1999 |
Euro Currency |
The Euro currency is introduced |
| 1995 |
Frederick West found dead |
Frederick West is found dead hanged in his prison cell at Winson Green prison near Birmingham.
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| 1995 |
EC - Finland |
Finland is admitted to the European Community |
| 1995 |
World Trade Organisation |
The World Trade Organisation comes into being |
| 1995 |
EC - Sweden |
Sweden admitted into the European Community |
| 1995 |
EC - Austria |
Austria admitted into the European Community |
| 1988 |
Perestroika laws come into effect |
Legislation initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev under his plan for Perestroika come into effect this day, transferring much of the economic processes from state to private enterprise. |
| 1986 |
EC - Portugal |
Portugal is admitted in to the European Community |
| 1986 |
EC - Spain |
Spain is admitted to the European Community |
| 1981 |
EC - Greece |
Greece is admitted to the European Community |
| 1973 |
EC - Denmark |
Denmark is admitted to the European Community |
| 1973 |
EC - Ireland |
Ireland is admitted in to the European Community |
| 1973 |
EC - United Kingdom |
United Kingdom is admitted in to the European Community |
| 1972 |
Maurice Chevalier dies |
French actor and singer Maurice Chevalier dies. |
| 1962 |
Beatles - Recording contract |
Decca Records turn down the Beatles |
| 1959 |
Fidel Castro achieves victory in Cuba |
Fidel Castro leads Cuban revolutionaries to victory over the government led by Fulgencio Batista |
| 1958 |
European Community (EC) |
European Community is established |
| 1939 |
Hewlett Packard |
Hewlett Packard is founded by William Hewlett and David Packard |
| 1912 |
China |
The Republic of China is established |
| 1909 |
United Kingdom - First old age pensions |
Thousands of Britons over the age of 70 went to their Post Office to collect their new pension |
| 1908 |
Gustav Mahler conducting debut |
Gustav Mahler makes his US conducting debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York |
| 1892 |
Ellis Island opens |
The immigration centre at Ellis Island in New York opens. |
| 1833 |
Falkland Islands |
Britain claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands |
| 1818 |
Mary Shelley |
Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein is published |
| 1804 |
Haiti |
Haiti becomes the first black republic and the first independent country in the West Indies following years of French rule |
| 1801 |
United Kingdom |
The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom |
| 1651 |
Scottish Royalty |
King Charles II is crowned King of Scotland |
| 1431 |
Popes |
Pope Alexander VI born |
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