1645: The Royalists were beaten by the Parliamentarians at Naseby, in the decisive battle of the English Civil War.

1847: Robert Bunsen invented the burner that bears his name.

1894: Thomas Edison filmed a boxing match between Mike Leonard and Jack Cushing in New Jersey. It was the first filmed sporting event.

1933: German Jews were banned from the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

1940: German forces entered Paris.

1941: John Huston started filming The Maltese Falcon.

1958: Buddy Holly failed an initial medical, which might have led to his call-up, due to a stomach ulcer.

1967: Number One was Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale.

1982: The Falklands War ended with the surrender of Argentine troops on the islands.

1984: Changes were made to divorce laws to make divorce possible after one year instead of three.

1999: Figures revealed that Britain was top of the European divorce league.