Facebook expanded to the United Kingdom on this day – March 10 – in 2005.

The University of Surrey, the University og Cambridge and the University of Oxford were the first three British schools to gain access to Facebook.

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Facebook was launched on this day – February 4 – in 2004. During its first days of operation, Facebook was only available to Harvard students.

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Facebook opened its membership to anyone on this day – September 26 – in 2006.

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