1922 – The death of Alexander Graham Bell, the Scottish scientist who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

1925 – Alan Whicker, broadcaster and writer was born.

1957 – The official Elvis Presley Fan Club was launched in the UK.

1970 – The British army used rubber bullets for the first time to quell a riot in Northern Ireland.

1973 – 51 people were killed when fire swept through the Summerland Amusement Centre at Douglas on the Isle of Man. It was one of the worst British peacetime disasters involving a fire since 1929 when the Glen Cinema in Paisley, Scotland caught fire. It killed 69 children and injured 40 others.

1985 – England captain David Gower scores his 5,000th run in Test cricket during the drawn fourth Test v Australia at Old Trafford.

1989 – Trade restrictions between Britain and Argentina were lifted for the first time since the 1982 Falklands war.

1993 – Following speculative pressure on currencies in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, the Mechanism collapsed and currencies were allowed to fluctuate within broad band of 15% on either side of central rates.

2013 – Magdelena Luczak, 27, and Mariusz Krezolek, 34, from Coventry were served a minimum of 30 years each for what the judge called their ‘incomprehensible brutality’ that led to the death, from a head injury, of her 4 year old son Daniel. Daniel, who had also been starved by the pair and was subjected to cold water punishment weighed just over a stone and a half when he died and had ‘endured severe physical and mental suffering’.

2014 – 49 year old Stuart Kettell completed his challenge to push a Brussels sprout up Snowdon using his nose. It took him 3 days and he raised more than £6000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

2017 – The Duke of Edinburgh makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements aged 96.

2018 – Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in value.

2020 – The Space X Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico after the first commercial crewed mission.