On this day:
2006: A Military coup overthrows the elected government in Thailand
2010: Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Born on this day:
1911: William Golding, English author, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1968: Chester Carlson, American physicist, invented Xerography
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