1558 - Death Of England's First Queen
1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.
1798 - Irish nationalist leader Wolfe Tone commits suicide while in jail awaiting execution.
1880 - The first three British female graduates receive their Bachelor of Arts degrees from London University.
1903 - In London, Russia's Social Democrats officially split into two groups Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.
1904 - The first underwater submarine journey is undertaken from Southampton to the Isle of Wight.
1913 - The steamship Louise becomes the first ship to travel through the Panama Canal.
1913 - In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm bans the armed forces from dancing the tango.
1922 - Siberia votes for union with the USSR
1970 - The unmanned Soviet spaceship Luna 17 landed on the Moon.
First roving remote controlled Robot to land on another world
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1990 - A mass grave, believed to be that of World War Two prisoners of war, is discovered by the infamous bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand.
2010 - Scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider near Geneva trap antimatter for the first time in human history.
