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On This Day...
5:01am Tuesday 10th June 2008
10th June
1752 - Benjamin Franklin conducts his famous lightning experiment during a thunderstorm.
1943 - The ball point pen is patented by Hungarian Lazlo Biro.
1985 - Coca Cola announce they are bringing back their 99-year-old recipe, because of popular demand.
2000 - Cannabis is found in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace when it is raided by police.
2000 - Two spinsters, who never gave any indication they were wealthy, astound their neighborhood by leaving a total of £26 million to charity in their wills.
2005 - A trio of pensioners known in Germany as the Grandpa Gang' are sentenced to a total of 31 years in jail for a series of bank robberies. The men stole more than £700,000, which they intended
for their retirement.
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