1981 - Comedy series ‘Only Fools and Horses’ starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, debuts on British television. The first episode was called “Big Brother”.

1940 - Germany began regular bombing of London – commonly known as ‘The Blitz’. The bombing continued nightly until 2nd November.

1997 - The funeral service for Diana, Princess of Wales, was held in Westminster Abbey, London. An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the service on television.

2013 - More than 130 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in thick fog on the Sheppey crossing in Kent. The A249 bridge was closed for more than nine hours.

1965 – The Who’s van containing £5,000 worth of equipment is stolen from outside Battersea Dogs Home while the band are inside buying a guard dog.

1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile at over 300 mph.

1945 – World War II officially ended when Japanese officials, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, surrendered on behalf of their country.

1985 - After 73 years, the wreck of the liner ‘Titanic’ was found, by Dr Robert Ballard. The Commander in the US Navy, was under strict instructions not to disclose anything related to the true background of the discovery expedition.

1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul are killed when their car crashes in a Paris underpass while being pursued by paparazzi.