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- 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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