5:54am Monday 9th June 2008
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.
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