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2019

Bugatti announces the most expensive new car ever made – the La Voiture Noire costing $19 million, only one will be made

2015

Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California

2002

American reality TV program The Osbournes” featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV.

1993

Sprinter Ben Johnson was banned from racing for life by the Amateur Athletic Association after testing positive for banned performance-enhancing substances for a second time.

1960

Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

1918

The Soviets moved the capital of Russia from Petrograd to Moscow.

1868

Stapler patented in England by C H Gould.

1853

Piano company Steinway & Sons founded by Heinrich Steinweg (later Henry Steinway) in New York City

1836

Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

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