1981 - The American spacecraft Voyager 2 reached the planet Saturn
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1984 - A soviet cosmonaut became the first woman to walk in space
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1978 - The first ever 'test tube baby', Louise Brown, was born in Britain
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1957 - Tunisia, North Africa, became an independent republic
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1943 - Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, was forced to resign
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1909 - Louis Bleriot became the first man to cross the Channel by aeroplane
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1834 - Samuel Coolridge, the English poet, died
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