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1782: The battleship HMS Royal George sank off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 lives. 1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the production of electricity from magnetism. 1882: England cricketers lost to Australia in England for the first time, and from an epitaph that appeared in the Sporting Times the word "Ashes" came into being.
1885: The first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.See the full content of this document
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