1910 – More than 100 suffragettes were arrested by police when they tried to storm the House of Commons at Westminster, London.

1926 – George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, ‘I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.’ The Nobel prize is awarded annually for outstanding contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences.

1943 – 440 Royal Air Force planes bombed Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew.

1967 – A ban on the movement of farm animals across the whole of England and Wales came into effect at midnight, in a bid to curb the spread of foot and mouth disease.

1983 – The world’s first all-girl sextuplets were born, to Mrs. Janet Walton at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. They were named Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jenny.

1987 – The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 30 people. The blaze began in the machinery below a wooden escalator in King’s Cross Underground station and soon filled the tunnels with dense, choking smoke and intense heat.

1991 – Church envoy Terry Waite was freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.

2002 – United Nations weapons inspectors arrived in Iraq. It had been alleged that Iraq was producing weapons of mass destruction but no evidence was ever found. Nevertheless, on 20th March 2003, an alliance of primarily U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq with the authority of President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

2003 – The Local Government Act 2003, repealing the controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, became effective. Section 28 stated that a local authority ‘shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality’ or ‘promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship.’

2014 – Benjy, a bull branded gay, was saved by charity donations, including £5,000 from Sam Simon, the co-creator of the Simpsons. Benjy, from County Mayo, Ireland, had been destined for the abattoir after showing more interest in breeding with other bulls than cows.

2014 – Tony and Jan Jenkinson were ‘fined’ £100 by the Broadway Hotel in Blackpool after they wrote a damning review about it on TripAdvisor. After their stay, the couple found that their credit card had been debited, as the hotel had a ‘no bad review policy’ included in its terms and conditions. The money was later refunded and the policy changed.

2014 – Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne (murdered in 2000 by Roy Whiting ) shut her social network account after she had endured “over 10 years of online unrelenting stalking and harassment”. Sara’s husband Michael Payne, who had fought a battle with alcohol since the murder of his eight-year-old daughter, died in October 2014, aged just 45.

2018 – An American 26-year-old, John Allen Chau, was killed by natives living on the forbidden Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. The island is notorious for being unfriendly to outsiders, with many who try to visit losing their lives.