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2nd February 1852: World’s first modern flushable public toilets open in London

2nd February 2023
Tagged as: Fleet Street, Great Exhibition, Hygiene, London, Toilet, Water Closet

Despite their elegant mahogany and brass design, and an extensive promotional campaign that featured the distribution of 50,000 handbills alongside an advertisement in The Times newspaper, the toilets proved unpopular.

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2nd February 1852: First modern public toilets open in London

2nd February 2021
Tagged as: England, Health, London, Science, Technology, Toilet, United Kingdom

On the 2^nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in London.

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2nd February 1852: World’s first modern flushable public toilets open in London

2nd February 1852: First modern public toilets open in London

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

1st June 1495: First written reference to Scotch whisky (distilled at @LindoresAbbey)

31st May 1669: Samuel Pepys writes the final entry of his famous diary that records the period of the Restoration

30th May 1381: Outbreak of the Peasants’ Revolt in England

29th May 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquers Constantinople and defeats the Byzantine Empire

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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