1900: General Buller relieved Ladysmith after a 118-day siege in the Boer War.
1912: The world's first parachute jump from an aeroplane was made over Missouri, USA, by Albert Berry.
1940: Sandy's Half Hour began on radio, with Sandy MacPherson - the first listeners' request programme.
1948: The Royal Family went to see Danny Kaye at the London Palladium, the first "non-command performance" attended by a reigning monarch.
1966: Liverpool's Cavern Club, where the Beatles made their name, went into liquidation.
1975: A train from Drayton Park crashed through buffers at Moorgate tube station and killed 42 people.
1986: Swedish prime minister Olave Palme was shot dead by an unknown assassin in Stockholm.
1989: In London's Covent Garden, the world's biggest litter bin was unveiled - sponsored by Kentucky Fried Chicken.
LAST YEAR: A young mother-of-three was stabbed to death in an alley as she pushed her baby son in a pram in Lancashire.
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