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2012 Event - In an effort to curb binge drinking and other alcohol related problems, the United Kingdom's Home Office begins a 10-week consultation on whether to introduce a minimum price on the sale of alcohol of 45p a unit

2012 Event - Footballer Fabrice Muamba is critically ill and in a London hospital intensive care unit after undergoing cardiac arrest on live television during the 41st minute of the FA cup quarter final

1990 Event - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV

1971 Event - White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

1967 Birthday - Moon Unit Zappa, rocker, Valley Girl, Frank's daughter

1962 Event - NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts

1954 Event - Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit

1951 Event - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated

1951 Event - Dutch Korea volunteers win U.S. Collective Unit Citation

1935 Event - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia

1934 Event - French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit

1918 Event - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France

1918 Event - U.S. employment service opens as a unit of Department of Labor

1901 Event - Battle at Bakenlaagte: Lt-colonel Bensons unit vs Boers

1901 Event - Battle at Elands River Port: Boer General Smuts destroys unit 17th Lancers

1892 Event - Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed

1864 Event - Battle at Cynthiana Kentucky: General Hobsons unit caught









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