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1921: Mongolia becomes an independent state.
1947: The Government announces that Princess Elizabeth will receive extra ration coupons to buy her wedding dress.
1958: Britain's first parking meters appear in Mayfair.
11 July:
1804: Aaron Burr, US vice-president, fights a duel with Alexander Hamilton, a former treasury secretary. Hamilton is wounded and dies the next day.
1938: Arctic Eskimoes complain of a heatwave as temperatures hit 67F (19C).
1956: The makers of 4711 perfume sue Herr Koelsch of Siegen, a cesspit emptier whose phone number, 4711, is prominently displayed on his van.
1962: US frogman Fred Baldasare is the first person to swim the Channel underwater.
12 July:
1910: Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, becomes the first British aeroplane fatality, killed at a flying competition in Bournemouth.
1930: Donald Bradman scores 334 against England at Leeds.
1989: A woman shouting after a conviction for theft in Cleveland, Ohio, is ordered by the judge to have her mouth taped shut.
13 July:
1837: Buckingham Palace becomes the official royal residence.
1860: Marine private John Dalliger is the victim of the last naval execution at the yard-arm.
1871: Crystal Palace stages the first cat show.
1883: Death of "General Tom Thumb" (Charles Stratton). He is 40ins tall.
1920: London County Council bans the employment of foreigners in almost all jobs.
14 July:
1867: Alfred Nobel first demonstrates dynamite at a quarry in Redhill, Surrey.
1945: The ban is lifted on allied troops fraternising with German women.
15 July:
1869: Margarine is patented by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
1913: A woman is arrested for wearing a split skirt in Richmond.
1948: Formation of the British branch of Alcoholics Anonymous.
16 July:
1661: Sweden issues Europe's first banknotes.
1935: The world's first parking meters - invented by Carlton Magee - appear in Oklahoma.
1945: The first atom bomb is exploded in New Mexico.
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