1934 – The largest ever English football crowd outside Wembley watched the match between Manchester City and Stoke City, in the FA Cup 6th round. Spectators numbered 84,569.

1943 – World War II: 173 people were killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid shelter at Bethnal Green tube station, in London.

1955 – A statement was made that London would become a smokeless zone at the beginning of October.

1966 – The BBC announced that it would begin broadcasting television programmes in colour in 1967.

1974 – A Turkish airliner en route to London crashed near Paris, killing all 345 people on board. Among the victims were 200 passengers, many of them British, who had been transferred from British Airways flights cancelled because of a strike by engineers at London airport.

1982 – The Queen opened the new £153m Barbican Arts Centre

1985 – NUM members (National Union of Mineworkers) returned to work after their costly year long strike, without a peace deal being won by their leader Arthur Scargill.

1991 – The Queen needed three stitches in her hand after intervening in a corgi fight.

1995 – Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorced. She married Prince Charles on 9th April 2005.

1995 – A bill which would ban hunting with hounds in England and Wales became the first such proposal to get a second reading in parliament.

1995 – It was announced that British police were to be issued with stab proof vests in dangerous operations.

2000 – Tens of thousands of football fans paid their last respects to Sir Stanley Matthews, regarded as one of the greatest players of the English game, who died on 23rd February.

2015 – Paul Coyle (aged 50), the former treasurer and head of tax at Morrisons supermarkets was jailed for 12 months after pleading guilty to two counts of insider trading after buying Ocado Group shares. He was also handed a confiscation order for £203,234.

2018 – The death of Sir Roger Bannister (aged 88), the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes, a feat he achieved at the Iffley Road Sports Ground, Oxford on 6th May 1954, in a time of 3 minutes 59.4 seconds.