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1893 the Independent Labour Party formed by Keir Hardie to promote working-class representation.

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1906 Aleksandr Popov, who used radio waves to transmit a message in 1896, independently of Guglielmo Marconi, died in St Petersburg.

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1929 Wyatt Earp, gambler and law officer involved in the gunfight at the OK Corral in 1881, died.

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1941 James Joyce, novelist, died in Zurich aged 58.

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1978 Nasa selected its first women astronauts.

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1989 the Friday the 13th virus struck at IBM-compatible computers.

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2004 Harold Shipman, who killed more than 250 people, hanged himself in prison.