1966 - John Lennon made a controversial statement saying that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus.”

1995 - A bill which would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales became the first such proposal to get a second reading in parliament.

1969 - The Concorde airplane was tested for the first time in Toulouse, France.

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.