| Year | Item | Detail |
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| 1995 |
Eric Cantona banned |
Manchester United's Eric Cantona is fined £20,000 and banned from playing football following his attack on a fan.
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| 1975 |
The Troubles - IRA bombs in London and Manchester |
Five IRA bombs go off in London and 19 are injured in Manchester from another IRA bomb |
| 1971 |
Angry Brigade |
The Angry Brigade claim responsibility for a series of bomb attacks. |
| 1967 |
NASA - Three die during Apollo 1 rehearsal |
Three american astronauts die on this day in a fire which swept through their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad rehearsal. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee perished. |
| 1945 |
World War 2 - Auschwitz liberated |
The Red Army liberates the Nazi's biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland.
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| 1944 |
World War 2 - Leningrad siege ends |
Soviet forces drive German troops away from the Leningrad which has been besieged since September 1941.
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| 1903 |
Fire - 51 die in fire at mental hospital |
51 die at a fire in a mental hospital at Colney Hatch, north of London |
| 1901 |
Guiseppe Verdi dies |
Italian composer Guiseppe Verdi dies |
| 1756 |
Wolfgang Mozart is born |
Wolfgang Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria. |
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