George Smith, a London taxi driver, became the first person ever to be fined for drunk driving.
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Mike the Headless Chicken lost his head.
The CERN Large Hadron Collider was powered up for the first time.
Inventor Elias Howe was awarded the patent for the lockstitch sewing machine.
Archaeologists and scientists discovered a new human-like species inside caves in South Africa.
Hamida Djandoubi, the 'Pimp Killer,' was the last person executed by guillotine in France.
