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On this day in 1884 – October 13th – Greenwich in the United Kingdom was adopted as the prime meridian of the world.

There had been many prime meridians in use by countries around the world. But at the International Meridian Conference held in Washington DC, 25 maritime countries voted to adopt the Greenwich meridian as the longitude line of zero degrees.

Mona Evans
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