1899: The Boer War began.
1939: Albert Einstein warned American president Franklin Roosevelt of the possibilities of the atomic bomb.
1948: The BBC broadcast from Downing Street for the first time.
1957: The largest radio telescope in the world was switched on at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire.
1961: American comedian Leonard "Chico" Marx died.
1963: The Beatles' She Loves You passed the one million mark in record sales.
1966: The Post Office announced that all home and businesses addresses in Britain were to be allocated postcodes.
1968: The US spacecraft, Apollo 7, was launched from Cape Kennedy with a crew of three.
1982: The Mary Rose was raised from the sea bed off Portsmouth. It had been the pride of Henry VIII's fleet until it sank in The Solent in 1545.
1992: Paul Gascoigne made an apology after swearing in front of a Norwegian TV camera.
1999: A capacity crowd at Old Trafford paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson and raised £1 million for his testimonial.
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