1774: Oxygen gas is discovered by Joseph Preistly.
1834: Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire.
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1907: Baden-Powell holds the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island.
1927: The Nanchang uprising marks the first real battle of the Chinese Civil War. The date is commemorated in China as the founding of the People's LiberationArmy.
1936: Hitler opens the 1936 Berlin Olympic games.
1981: MTV starts broadcasting. The first video shown is "Video killed the radio star."
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