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1878 Frank Woolworth opened his first store in Utica, New York.

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1897 Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet), acrobat and tightrope walker known for his crossing of Niagara Falls, died at Ealing, London, aged 72.

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1907 taxi cabs with meters were introduced in London.

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1928 Bert Hinkler completed the first solo flight from England to Australia, landing in Darwin having taken off from Croydon 15 days earlier.

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1946 Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announced his discovery of the antibiotic streptomycin.

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2006 £53 million was discovered to have been stolen from a Securitas depot in Kent, in Britain’s biggest robbery.