• 1982

    America carries out its first execution by lethal injection when prisoner Charles Brooks Jr is executed at Fort Worth in Texas.

  • 1972

    The NASA lunar mission, Apollo 13, is launched.

  • 1955

    In Britain, former Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Clement Atlee, resigns.

 

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