ON THIS DAY

1824:

The British Parliament votes to purchase 38 paintings to establish a national art gallery. US Congress outlaws polygamy.

The first colour picture appears in a newspaper, New York’s Daily Illustrated Mirror.

Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes patent the laser.

Australian cameraman Paul Moran is killed and ABC journalist Eric Campbell is injured in northeastern Iraq by a suicide bombing during the Iraq War.

A British terrorist drives a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge, killing five people, then stabbing an unarmed police officer before being shot and killed.

William Shatner, Canadian actor (1931-); George Benson, US singer-guitarist (1943); Harry Vanda, Australian songwriter and musician of Easybeats fame (1946-).

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