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1252: Use of torture in the inquisition of heretics is authorised by Innocent IV in his bull 'Ad exstirpanda'
1649: The 'Rump Parliament' under Oliver Cromwell declares England a 'commonwealth' or free state.
1957: Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb over Christmas Island in the Pacific, following the US and USSR.
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