On this day in history...

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1966 - The football World Cup is stolen while on exhibition in London.

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1960 - More than 50 Africans die and 169 are injured as police open fire in the South African township of Sharpeville.

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2002 - A woman paralysed from the neck down wins her legal right to die by having her treatment withdrawn.

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1983 - President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space.

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1981 - Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs is rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping.

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1950 - Norway comes to North London for a ski-jumping competition complete with imported snow.

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1973 - Women are allowed on to the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time in the institution's 200 year history.

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1986 - The Soviets open a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station,Mir

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A jury returns a verdict of accidental death at the end of the inquest of 95 Liverpool football fans crushed to death in (Hillsborough) Sheffield.

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1981- Thousands of people jog through the normally quiet Sunday streets of the capital to try and cross the finish line of the first ever London marathon.