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1996: Handguns to be banned in the UK.
The British Government announces plans to outlaw almost all handguns following Dunblane massacre in March.


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1956 Queen Elizabeth II opened Calder Hall in Cumbria - Britain's first large scale atomic energy station.


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1967: Soviets glimpse beneath clouds of Venus.
The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time.


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1970 British Petroleum announced the first major discovery of oil under the British sector of the North Sea.


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1946 'Muffin the Mule', a wooden puppet operated by Annette Mills (sister of actor Sir John Mills) first appeared in a children's television programme on BBC TV


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1805 Battle of Trafalgar.
In one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of Spain.At sea, Lord Nelson and the Royal Navy consistently thwarted Napoleon Bonaparte.


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1879 After 14 months of testing, Thomas Edison first demonstrates his electric lamp, hoping to one day compete with gaslight.


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1906 In Britain, women suffragettes, campaigning for the right to vote, held a demonstration at the House of Commons. Ten were arrested and sent to prison.


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1945 The United Nations was formed with the aim to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'


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1945 The United Nations was formed with the aim to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.'


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1839 Bradshaw's Railway Guide, the world's first railway timetable, was published, in Manchester.


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On this day in 1881, the Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone.


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The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of the United States, is dedicated in New York Harbour by President Grover Cleveland.


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1986 The final section of the M25 was opened. The motorway around Greater London was designed to relieve traffic congestion within the capital.


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Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of “War of the Worlds”—a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth.


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