1964 - A massive manhunt got under way across Britain after Charlie Wilson, one of the gang involved in the Great Train Robbery, broke out of the high-security Winson Green prison in Birmingham.

2016 - A Greenland shark is declared the oldest vertebrate animal in the world at 392 years by an international team of scientists.

1895 - The first Promenade Concert (The Proms) was held at the Queen’s Hall, London, conducted by Henry Wood.

1984 - Daley Thompson of Great Britain scores 8,797 points to win the Olympic decathlon in Los Angeles.

1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a series of daylight air raids on Britain and so began The Battle of Britain which would continue into the following October.

1993 - The public got its first glimpse inside Buckingham Palace as people were given the opportunity to tour the London home of Queen Elizabeth II. Proceeds from ticket sales were earmarked to help repair fire damage at Windsor Castle.

2012 - Pioneering astronomer and physicist Sir Bernard Lovell, the founder of University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory died, aged 98.

1957 – The comic strip “Andy Capp” created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, makes its debut in The Daily Mirror.

2015 - Because of the locusts, a state of emergency has been declared in three regions near Stavropol, according to local media. In Stavropol alone, efforts to kill the insects have stretched across more than 350 miles, according to officials.