1946 – More than a year after the end of World War II, bread was rationed in Britain. The shortage was blamed on a poor harvest and drought.

1972 – Paul and Linda McCartney were arrested in Sweden for possession of drugs.

1986 – MPs voted to abolish corporal punishment in state schools.

1991 – British prime minister John Major unveiled the government’s Citizen’s Charter aimed at improving public services.

1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales was among 3,000 people at a Mass in Milan in memory of murdered Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace.

1999 – The first Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show in the North of England was held at Tatton Park in Cheshire.

2005 – Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was mistaken for a terrorist suspect and was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station in south London as the hunt was intensified for those responsible for the London bombings on the 7th and 21st July.

2007 – Torrential rain swept across large parts of the UK at the weekend. Hull was under water, but the flooding spread around the UK with Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire being some of the counties worst affected.

2010 – BNP leader Nick Griffin was denied entry to a Buckingham Palace garden party over claims he ‘overtly’ used his invitation for political purposes.

2010 – A luxury Koenigsegg CCXR (one of only six ever made), valued at £1.2m and a £350,000 Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SuperVeloce were clamped outside Harrods in central London after being illegally parked. The cars were released for £70 each as the fines were paid within 14 days.

2012 – Bradley Wiggins, aged 32, became the first British cylist to win the Tour de France. He finished with a winning margin of 3 minutes and 21 seconds.

2013 – The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby boy (George Alexander Louis). After his grandfather, Prince Charles and his father Prince William, he is third in line to succeed his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

2014 – A National Audit Office report found that the Home Office did not know if more than 175,000 people who had no right to be in the UK had left or not. All had been refused temporary or permanent migration but their whereabouts were not known.

2018 – East Fife 4 Forfar 5 was the ultimate football tongue-twister for anyone trying to read out the football results. It became a long standing joke between comedian Eric Morecambe and James Alexander Gordon, voice of the classified football results for 40 years. On Sunday, 22nd July 2018 that result finally happened for the first time in the fixture’s history when the Scottish League Cup Group B tie between the sides went to penalties after a 1-1 draw, leading to East Fife 4 Forfar 5.