Tokyo celebrated the country’s first LGBTQ+ pride parade.
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Half a million people in South East England were left without electricity.
The Slave Abolition Act was passed and came into effect the following year on August 1.
Nature magazine published findings of a 3.8-million-year-old skull found in Ethiopia, which questioned our previous theories of human evolution.
Toyota Motor Corporation was founded after operating as a division of Toyoda Automatic Looms for six years.
Sandwich restaurant Subway was founded in Bridgeport, Connecticut, US.