On This Day in History |
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930 World's oldest parliament, the Icelandic Parliament is established, the Alþingi (anglicised as Althing or Althingi). |
1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents the Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful of its kind. |
1960 First contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the United States. |
1974 First extraterrestrial message sent from Earth into space. |
1983 Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa meets Pope John Paul II during papal visit to Poland. |
 | Counting gets underway in the UK referendum on membership in the European Union |
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2016 United Kingdom votes in the Brexit referendum to leave the European Union. |
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Also Edward VIII and Zinedine Zidane (52). |
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Also Vespasian and Sheldon Harnick. |
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A typewriter patent was granted on this day to the man who would go on to produce and inflict on us all the ubiquitous Qwerty keyboard. |
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