1989
East German leader Erich Honecker resigned
1989
Hungary was proclaimed a free republic after Communist rule ended
1984
Death of Henri Michaux, Belgian-born French poet and artist
1969
The US Government banned cyclamates (a type of artificial sweetener) because they caused liver cancer in laboratory rats
1968
Police raided John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s London flat and found a small quantity of marijuana. (They were later fined £150).
1908
Belgium annexed the Congo Free State .
1859
Birth of Henri Bergson, Nobel Prize-winning French philosopher
1685
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes – drove thousands of Protestants (Huguenots) from France – many settled in England
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