The Ulster Assembly, Northern Ireland, sat for the first time
1969
The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in Britain
1965
The advertising of cigarettes on British television was banned
1964
Spacecraft Ranger 7 transmited the first close-up photographs of the Moons surface
1954
The Mountain K2 was climbed for the first time by an Italian team
1950
Sainsbury's opened Britains first self-service store
1943
Jim Reeves, the American country and western singer, died in an aircrash
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