1900 The Relief Of Mafekin
1908 Olympic Games In London
1918 Execution of Tsar Nicholas and family
1920 Prohibition begins In USA
1924 Ramsay McDonald becomes first Labour Prime Minister
1932 The First Christmas Message by a Reigning Monarch
1934 Bonnie Clyde Killed by Police
1936 Edward the Eighth Abdicated
1938 Orson Welles Radio Presenter of the War of The Worlds
1942 Oxfam Founded
1944 D Day Landing Allies In Normandy
1946 Opening Of London Airport
1948 Mahatma (Mohandas) Ghandi Assassinated
1950 The Apartheid Began
1956 Suez Canal Crisis
1958 Elvis Presley Drafted Into United States Army
1962 Dr No the first James Bond Film
1964 Beatles reaches all top Five Places in United States Charts
1966 The Aberfan Disaster
1970 Voting Age reduced from Twenty One to Eighteen
1972 Spaghetti Junction Opened
1974 Watergate Scandal C...............
1976 Britain & Iceland end Cod War
1986 Challenger Disaster
1992 Benny Hill & Frankie Howerd die
1996 Damon Hill wins Motor Racing World Championship