June 22nd – On This Day
1948 - The Empire Windrush ship arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex, bringing the first of hundreds of thousands of people who came to Britain between 1948 and 1971 to help rebuild the country after the war.
June 21st – On This Day
1996 - Britain and other members of the EU reached an agreement for the phased lifting of the ban on British beef. French farmers, however, blockaded two channel ports.
June 20th – On This Day
1996 - English cricket umpire Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird received a standing ovation by players and spectators at Lords when he took the field to officiate in his final Test Match. The two teams (India and England) formed a guard of honour as he came out.
June 19th – On This Day
1978 - Ian Botham takes eight wickets against Pakistan. Captain Mike Brearley called him a ‘colossus’ after a third Test century in England’s 364 and 8-34 in Pakistan’s second innings.
June 18th – On This Day
1963 - Henry Cooper knocked Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) to the floor in round four at Wembley Stadium, London, but by the sixth, with Cooper badly cut, the fight was stopped and Clay remained world heavyweight boxing champion.
June 17th – On This Day
1982 - Manchester United footballer Norman Whiteside (pictured left) became the youngest player to appear in the World Cup finals playing for Northern Ireland against Yugoslavia in Spain.
June 16th – On This Day
1915 - The foundation of the Women's Institute, regularly referred to as simply the WI. Its two aims were to revitalise rural communities and to encourage women to become more involved in producing food during the First World War.
June 15th – On This Day
1996 - An IRA bomb, the biggest ever to go off on the British mainland, devastated the centre of Manchester. Miraculously no-one was killed but 200 people were taken to hospital. The explosion caused £100 million worth of damage.
June 14th – On This Day
2017 - A fire in the 24-storey Grenfell Tower block at North Kensington, West London caused 72 deaths. The fire started accidentally in a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor and the building burned for about 60 hours.