1. 1867 - The Conservatives hold Britain's first Party Conference at the Freemason's Tavern on Great Queen Street, London
2. 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party, and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union
3. 1929 - Grace Kelly is born
4. 1940 - Walt Disney releases Fantasia
5. 1954 - New York's main immigration point, Ellis Island, shuts its doors after 62 years
6. 1983 - Britain returns a fragment of the Sphinx's beard to Egypt. The fragment had been in the British museum for 165 years.
7. 1984 - The English pound note is to disappear after more than 150 years
8. 1984 - Madonna's album Like A Virgin is released
9. 1992 - The first episode of Absolutely Fabulous, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French is broadcast on the BBC
10. 1997 - The 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, celebrates after Brazil rejects a British request to extradite him
11. 2011 - Silvio Berlusconi officially resigns from his post as Prime Minister of Italy after spending seventeen years at the forefront of Italian politics
Sources: BBC, Wikipedia,historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk,brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeoplehistory, onthisdayinhistory.com
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