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On This Day, Premium Essentials

July 10th – Birthdays and Events

1997 – More than 100,000 people packed Hyde Park in London for a countryside rally to protest against Government proposals to ban fox hunting.

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July 9th – Birthdays and Events

1982 - Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising concerns about poor Palace security.

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July 8th – Birthdays and Events

1996 – A patent was filed by two British scientists to use genetically engineered mosquitoes to immunize their victims against malaria by transferring a protein in their saliva.

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July 7th – Birthdays and Events

2013 – Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title and ended Britain’s 77 year wait for a men’s champion with a victory over world number one Novak Djokovic.

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July 6th – Birthdays and Events

1988 – An explosion aboard the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha, off the coast of Aberdeen, resulted in the loss of 167 lives. It is the world’s deadliest ever oil rig accident.

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July 5th – Birthdays and Events

2012 – The Shard, Europe’s tallest building to date and ‘a gleaming feat of glass and gravity-defying engineering’, was officially unveiled in London.

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July 4th – Birthdays and Events

1990 – Footballer Paul Gascoigne’s booking, (that would have excluded him from the World Cup Final, had England got there), resulted in the famous on pitch crying scenes from Gascoigne.

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July 3rd – Birthdays and Events

1954 – The end of food rationing in Britain – almost 9 years after the end of World War II. Smithfield Meat Market in London opened at midnight instead of 6am to cope with the demand for beef.

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July 2nd – Birthdays and Events

1987 – Moors murderer Ian Brady offered to assist police searches of Saddleworth Moor for the first time since his conviction.

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