1899: The Boer War began.

1939: Albert Einstein warned American president Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of the atomic bomb.

1948: The BBC broadcast from Downing Street for the first time.

1957: The largest radio telescope in the world was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.

1961: American comedian Leonard "Chico" Marx died.

1963: The Beatles' She Loves You passed the one million mark in record sales.

1966: The Post Office announced that all home and businesses addresses in Britain were to be allocated postcodes.

1968: The US spacecraft, Apollo 7, was launched from Cape Kennedy with a crew of three.

1982: The Mary Rose was raised from the sea bed off Portsmouth. It had been the pride of Henry VIII's fleet until it sank in The Solent in 1545.

1992: Paul Gascoigne made an apology after swearing in front of a Norwegian TV camera.

1999: A capacity crowd at Old Trafford paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson and raised £1 million for his testimonial.