1998 - James Cameron’s Titanic starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, became the first film to gross more than $1 million worldwide.

1996 - The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.

1975 - In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.

1939 - Built in 1862 the Borley Rectory in Essex which was famously described as the "most haunted house in England" was badly damaged by fire. It was finally demolished in 1944.

1935 - Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated RADAR (radio detection and ranging) at Daventry, Northamptonshire.

1939 - The first Anderson air raid shelters appeared. Between then and the outbreak of the war in September, around 1.5 million shelters were distributed to people living in areas expected to be bombed by the Luftwaffe. During the war a further 2.1 million were erected.

1989 - An X-ray examination of a 150 million-year-old fossil egg discovered in Utah has revealed the outlines of what probably is the oldest dinosaur embryo ever found

1965 - The death of Stan Laurel, film comedian, born in Ulverston (which was then in Lancashire but now lies in Cumbria) in 1890. In 1961 Laurel was given a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award for his pioneering work in comedy.

2018 - Analysis of 65,000-year-old cave paintings in Spain revealed that Neanderthals were the first artists long before humans.