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On This Day...
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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In this section
- Drive-by victim family's plea to killers
- Car hits bus during police pursuit
- Bungled NHS IT system costs hospital £500,000
- Cops probe Gipsy Hill death
- Shops caught in 'ridiculous' VAT drop mess
- Epsom anger at Derby 'don't care' comment
- Bobby Davro and school kids recording Xmas single
- Menezes inquest drawing towards close
- Woman gets £85,000 crash compensation
- And for Xmas I want...
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