1986 - The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was a fatal accident in the United States’ space program. The Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

2001 - The first Holocaust Memorial Day was held in Britain on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops.

1926 - John Logie Baird gave a special public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution in London. Baird’s invention used mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic impulses.

1995 - After being sent off in a Premier League match at Crystal Palace, Manchester United’s Eric Cantona launches a kung-fu attack on Palace fan Matthew Simmonds.

2015 - A racehorse named Sir Winston Churchill netted a win, on the 50th anniversary of the wartime leader’s death, in the 3:25pm race at Uttoxeter racecourse.

2005 - Former Happy Mondays dancer Bez, won the £50,000 Celebrity Big Brother prize after gaining 54% of the final viewer vote. The "Madchester" pop legend danced his way to becoming the sixth member of the indie-dance band in the late-1980s.

1901 - Queen Victoria died after being diagnosed with 'cerebral exhaustion', aged 81 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. At the time, her reign was the longest in British history, spanning 63 years.

1990 - John McEnroe becomes the first player ever to be expelled from the Australian Open tennis event.

1982 - While playing a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown on stage thinking it’s a rubber toy. While playing a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, Ozzy Osbourne bites the head off a bat thrown on stage thinking it’s a rubber toy. After the show he was rushed to hospital for rabies shots.