2025 – Storm Éowyn hits Ireland and the UK with record-high winds of 114 mph (184 km/h), leaving hundreds of thousands without electricity in Northern Ireland and one person dead.

1901 - Queen Victoria died after being diagnosed with ‘cerebral exhaustion’, aged 81 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

1983 - British synth-pop duo Eurythmics released 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)'. The single peaked at No.2 on the UK chart and No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 six months later.

2007 - Britons Henry Cookson, Rory Sweet, Rupert Longsdon, and Canadian Paul Landry, became the first team to complete a 1,093-mile trek to reach the 'southern pole of inaccessibility'.

1955 - The popular board game Scrabble went on sale in the UK. Originally called Criss Cross in 1931, it was redesigned, renamed as Scrabble, and marketed in the US by James Brunot in 1948.

2005 – France revealed the world’s largest commercial aircraft, nicknamed the superjumbo. Officially called the Airbus A380, it’s a double-decker 262 ft carrier and has a capacity of 555 passengers.

1994 – An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale devastates Los Angeles. The earthquake was felt as far south as San Diego 200km away and as far north as Las Vegas, 440km to the north east.

1950 – Listen With Mother (offering a mix of nursery rhymes, stories and music for the under-fives and their mothers) began on radio with the words “Hello children. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin”.

2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River, NYC. After colliding with a pack of Canada geese, the aircraft lost all engine power.