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On January 1, 1973, Britain joined the European Economic Community, which was incorporated into what is now the European Union. Here's a photo of the front page of the Daily Mail from that day, as tweeted by the Guardian's Anushka Asthana:
Today, 44 years later, the UK formally began the "Brexiting" process.