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1852 the first flushing public lavatory for women opened in Bedford Street, London.

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1858 a 14-year-old French girl, Bernadette Soubirous, claimed that a beautiful lady, later identified as the Virgin Mary, appeared to her near Lourdes.

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1878 the first weekly weather report was issued by the Meteorological Office.

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1975 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman leader of a British political party.

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1977 the heaviest recorded crustacean, a lobster weighing 44lb 6oz, was caught off Nova Scotia in Canada.

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1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison in South Africa after 27 years in captivity.