On This Day... (From Your Local Guardian)

On This Day...

5:54am Monday 9th June 2008 in

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9th June
1822 - False teeth are patented by Charles Graham.

1920 - King George V opens the Imperial War Museum.

1979 - A record-breaking row of 169,713 dominoes was toppled by Michael Cairney.

1982 - The 20p coin goes into circulation.

2003 - Chancellor Gordon Brown gives his verdict on Britain joining the single European currency, saying not yet - but not never'.

2003 - A British man receives compensation equal to the value of a holiday he'd taken to the Grand Canyon, from the photo developers who had lost his film.