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The Airbus A380 takes to the skies for the first time
The double-deck airliner is the world’s largest commercial jet.
South African citizens of all races are allowed to vote in a general election for the first time
The 1994 general election was held precisely 44 years after Apartheid was formalized by the government with the passing of the Group Areas Act.
For the first time in its 700-year history, the British House of Commons is presided over by a female Speaker
Betty Boothroyd served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000.
Ludwig van Beethoven composes “Für Elise”
“Bagatelle No. 25” for solo piano is one of the German composer’s most popular works and one of the most recognized melodies in the history of music.
- 1963 Russell T Davies
Welsh screenwriter, producer - 1935 Theodoros Angelopoulos
Greek director, producer, screenwriter - 1822 Ulysses S. Grant
American general, politician, 18th President of the United States - 1791 Samuel Morse
American painter, inventor, co-invented the Morse code - 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft
English author, philosopher
- 1992 Olivier Messiaen
French composer, ornithologist - 1972 Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana - 1938 Edmund Husserl
Austrian mathematician, philosopher - 1896 Henry Parkes
English/Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales - 1521 Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer
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