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.
June 13th – On This Day
2019 - Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) are far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge.
June 12th – On This Day
1942 - Anne Frank, born on this day in 1922 received her famous diary. Her first entry was, “I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.”
June 11th – On This Day
1955 - Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least one hundred are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
June 10th – On This Day
2013 - A Dornier 17 German World War II bomber was raised from the bottom of the English Channel. The aircraft was shot down off the Kent coast during the Battle of Britain and is believed to be the only intact example of its kind in the world.