Identity cards, introduced at a wartime security measure, were abolished in britain
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Intercity railway between Glasgow and Edinburgh opened by Queen Victoria
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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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