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1. 10th September 1991: Nirvana release ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

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2. 9th September 1947: First literal computer ‘bug’ found in the Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer

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3. 8th September 1878: “The Great Herding” of sheep to Santa Cruz departs Fortín Conesa on the southern frontier of Argentina

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4. 7th September 1497: Perkin Warbeck claims he is English King Richard IV during the Second Cornish Uprising

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5. 6th September 1522: Victoria becomes the first ship to circumnavigate the world

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6. 5th September 1945: Defection of Igor Gouzenko to Canada exposes a Soviet espionage network in the West

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7. 4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

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8. 3rd September 1939: Second World War officially begins when France and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany alongside Australia and New Zealand

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9. 2nd September 1192: Treaty of Jaffa signed between Richard I of England and Saladin, ending the Third Crusade

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10. 1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland, triggering the Second World War

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11. 31st August 1854: Cholera outbreak in London’s Broad Street leads to John Snow’s investigation into germ-contaminated water

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12. 30th August 1918: Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, survives an assassination attempt

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13. 29th August 1831: Michael Faraday performs his first experiment leading to the discovery of electromagnetic induction

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14. 28th August 1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

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15. 27th August 1928: The Kellogg-Briand Pact to renounce war signed by 15 nations including Germany, France and the United States

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16. 26th August 1914: Battle of Tannenberg begins in the early weeks of the First World War between Russian and German forces

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17. 25th August 1835: The Great Moon Hoax begins to appear in The New York Sun newspaper as a series of articles

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18. 24th August 79: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius wipes out numerous Roman settlements including Pompeii and Herculaneum

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19. 23rd August 1942: Battle of Stalingrad enters its most intense phase with a bombing campaign by the German Luftwaffe

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20. 22nd August 1485: King Richard III killed at the Battle of Bosworth as the forces of Henry Tudor bring the Plantagenet dynasty to an end

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