1943 – Mick Jagger, British rock singer with the Rolling Stones, was born.

1943 – World War II: The Allies mounted one of the largest raids of the war – sending more than 1,000 aircraft to bomb the German industrial city of Hamburg. An estimated 60,000 people were killed.

1945 – Winston Churchill resigned as Britain’s prime minister after his Conservatives were defeated by the Labour Party in a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister. He said: ‘Labour can deliver the goods.’

1958 – In Britain, debutantes were presented at the Royal Court for the last time.

1966 – Bobby Charlton scores both England goals as they beat Portugal 2-1 in the semi-final of the World Cup.

1983 – A mother of 10 failed to prevent doctors prescribing contraception to under 16s without parental consent.

1989 – 56-year-old Leslie Merry was knocked off his feet, a rib broken and his spleen ruptured, by a turnip thrown from a passing car in east London. He finally died of respiratory failure brought on by the accident.

1990 – It was announced that the Fraud Squad would investigate the National Union of Mineworkers’ accounts over Soviet miners’ untraced donations.

1993 – The Mars Observer takes the first photo of Mars, from 5 billion km.

2001 – Prime Minister Tony Blair was greeted by dozens of angry farmers in crisis-torn Cumbria on a visit to help boost the region’s struggling tourist industry following the foot and mouth crisis.

2006 – After 41 and a half years, the last edition of Top of the Pops was recorded at BBC Television Centre in London.

2007 – Shambo, a black Friesian bull living in the Hindu Skanda Vale Temple near Llanpumsaint in Wales, was slaughtered due to a bovine tuberculosis infection. He had been adopted by the local Hindu community as a sacred animal and the slaughtering caused widespread controversy.

2013 – The former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall’s 15-month sentence for a series of indecent assaults was doubled by the Court of Appeal, increasing the term to 30 months. In June 2013, Hall, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, had admitted 14 counts against girls aged from nine to 17 between 1967 and 1985.

2017 – A jury awards record producer Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties for the use of Michael Jackson songs he produced in two Cirque du Soleil shows and the This Is It documentary. On the same day, US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes. Also, Britain announces it will ban petrol and diesel cars by 2040.

2018 – Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market, losing 19% or $119 billion market value.