1870: Parliament passed the Married Woman's Property Act which meant women no longer had to sign all their property over to their husbands when they married. NOW THEY GET EVERYTHING.

1902: Edward VII was crowned king at Westminster Abbey.

1945: The second atom bomb of World War Two was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

1962: it was announced that Sir Laurence Olivier was the new Director of the National Theatre.

1963: The first ever edition of Ready, Steady, Go was shown on TV.

1969: In Los Angeles, Charles Manson killed actress Sharon Tate and four others.

1979: Britain's first nudist beach opened in Brighton after a campaign by 47-year-old Eileen Jakes.

1982: Dexy's Midnight Runners were top of the pops with Come On Eileen.

1984: Decathlon Daley Thompson set a new world record of 8,847 points to retain his Olympic title at the Los Angeles Games.

1994: An Oasis gig at London's Riverside was stopped after a fan jumped on stage and punched Noel Gallagher in the face.

1999: Sports presenter and journalist Helen Rollason lost her fight against cancer.