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WRLD: Banner day for Northern Ireland as Birtish Army withdraws

SPRT: 1956 – First-class job! Laker takes 19 wickets

TECH: 1790 – US Patent Office opens; 4 score and 7 years later, Edison snags phonograph patent

BDAY: Dean Cain; JK Rowling; Evonne Goolagong; Ted Cassidy

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