Intercity railway between glasgow and edinburgh opened by queen victoria
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Identity cards, introduced at a wartime security measure, were abolished in Britain
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Richard Trevithick Cornish inventor and engineer demonstrated the first steam driven, died.
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Edward Despard, Irish republican, executed for attempted overthrow of British Crown
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