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2005 King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies and is succeeded by Prince Abdullah

1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"

1979 Premier/president al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein

1955 King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father

1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral

1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6


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