1947 – The birth of Leslie Grantham, English actor best known for his role as “Dirty” Den Watts in the soap opera EastEnders.

1948 – The launch of the Land Rover Defender. The first model was sold for £450 at the Amsterdam Motor Show.

1952 – The British public got the chance to read ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’, written by Anne Frank who hid from the Nazis in Holland during the war.

1974 – England’s football manager Sir Alf Ramsey, manager of the England team which won the World Cup in 1966 was sacked, after 11 years as manager.

1980 – Armed terrorists seized the Iranian Embassy in London taking 20 hostages and threatening to blow up the building.

1988 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opened World Expo ’88 in Brisbane, Australia. The fair was the largest event of the Bicentennial celebrations of the European settlement of Australia and attracted almost 16,000,000 visitors.

1999 – Two people were killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks. The bomb went off in a public house in the heart of London’s gay community.

2009 – The Met. Office forecasted ‘odds on for a barbecue summer’, with no repeat of the washouts of the previous two years but the average rainfall for the summer was up 40%.

2012 – A flamboyant Australian billionaire ordered a shipyard in China to build him an exact replica of the Titanic. The Chinese navy has been invited to escort Titanic II on its maiden voyage from England to New York in 2016.

2013 – A 40 thousand piece, 19.5ft. by 8ft. jigsaw commemorating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee crashed to the floor just days before it was due to go on display at Sandringham. Creator Dave Evans, who had spent five weeks creating the jigsaw believed that it would enter the Guinness World records as the world’s largest jigsaw.

2014 – 63 year old Jeremy Paxman announced that he was to quit his job as ‘rottweiler-in-chief’ presenter of Newsnight after 25 years.

2020 – The 100th birthday of Captain Tom Moore. On 6th April he set out to raise £1000 for NHS Charities Together by walking 100 lengths of his 25 metre garden and ended up raising almost £30M in donations. It was the largest-ever amount raised by a JustGiving campaign. He later featured in a charity cover version of the song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” with Michael Ball, with proceeds going to the same charity.