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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

31st January 2020
Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Health and Safety, Law, Legislation, United Kingdom

The modern 3-point seat belt was created by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin, who was a safety engineer for car manufacturer Volvo.

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17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people

17th October 2018
Tagged as: Alcohol, Beer, Britain, Drowning, England, Health and Safety, London, Poverty, Slum, United Kingdom

On the 17^th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.

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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

17th October 1814: The London Beer Flood kills 8 people

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12th July 1862: Creation of the Congressional Medal of Honor

15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off

16th March 1190: The Jewish population of York massacred in a pogrom

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

2nd August 1873: The Clay Street Hill Railroad becomes San Francisco’s first cable car

1st August 1981: Cable music television channel MTV is launched

31st July 1790: The first U.S. patent was awarded to Samuel Hopkins

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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