News

1865 - The American Civil War ended.

1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco.

1911 - The Titanic was launched.

1940 - The evacuation at Dunkirk began.

1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by the Royal Navy, west of Brest.

1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing became the first people to reach the summit of Everest.

1990 - France banned British beef imports amid fears of that the meat was infected with BSE or mad cows disease.

1998 - Pakistan defied the International Community, and exploded a sixth nuclear bomb.

Sport

1977 - 39 Juventus fans died during rioting at the European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels.

1997 - Borussia Dortmund beat Juventus to take the European Cup.

1998 - Eighteen-year-old Michael Owen became the youngest player to score for England, when he struck the winning goal in a match against Morocco.

2001 - David Coulthard won the Monaco Grand Prix.

Entertainment

1951 - BBC Radio broadcast 'The Goon Show' for the first time.

1976 - 'Taxi Driver' won the Palm d'Or at Cannes.

1999 - It was revealed that 'The Jerry Springer Show' had been ordered to tone down its violence.

2003 - At the age of 69, 'Doctor Kildare' star Richard Chamberlain publicly admitted he was gay.

Music

1969 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono began another bed-in at a Montreal hotel.

1977 - Virgin records released The Sex Pistols' widely-banned single, 'God Save The Queen'.

2000 - Sinead O'Connor revealed she was ashamed to be Irish because of the poor treatment asylum seekers and refugees were receiving in Ireland.

Number ones

2007 Rihanna ft Jay-Z: 'Umbrella'.

2006 Gnarls Barkley: 'Crazy'.

2005 Oasis: 'Lyla'.

2002 Eminem: 'Without Me'..

1993 Ace Of Base: 'All That She Wants'.

1978 Boney M: 'River Of Babylon'.

1973 Wizzard: 'See My Baby Jive'.

1968 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap: 'Young Girl'.