On this day:
1872: First international football match was held between England and Scotland
1982: Michael Jackson’s Thriller is released worldwide
Born on this day:
1835: Mark Twain, American author
1874: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1900: Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, playwright
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