This Day in History | 1955 Queen opens London Airport terminal

Her Majesty arrived by car with the Duke of Edinburgh and was greeted by a guard of honour made up of air crews from the British and Commonwealth airlines, headed

This Day in History | 2003 Saddam Hussein captured

The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers.”Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” US administrator Paul Bremer told journalists in Baghdad.

This Day in History | 2001 30,000 postal jobs ‘to be cut’

The company previously said it was to launch a £1.2bn cost-cutting package but today’s news was the first indication of the scale of the jobs affected. Consignia’s Chief Executive John Roberts

This Day in History | 1980 John Lennon shot dead

The 40-year-old was shot several times as he entered the Dakota, his luxury apartment building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, opposite Central Park, at 2300 local time. He was rushed in

This Day in History | 2001 Taliban surrender Kandahar

A deal brokered by Hamid Karzai, the head of Afghanistan’s new interim administration, has helped to secure the surrender of the hardline Taliban’s spiritual home. Taliban fighters have been laying down

This Day in History | 1965 White jury convicts Ku Klux Klansmen

The mother of five from Detroit was shot and killed while driving a young black activist, Leroy Moton, back to the town of Selma following a protest march to the

This Day in History | 1977 South African police cleared of Biko death

The chief magistrate of Pretoria, Martinus Prins, said he officially accepted findings the 30-year-old died of extensive brain injuries sustained during a scuffle with police on the morning of 7

This Day in History | 1955 Black woman challenges race law

Mrs Rosa Parks now faces a fine for breaking the segregation laws which say black Americans must vacate their seats if there are white passengers left standing. It is not the

This Day in History | 1954 Winston Churchill turns 80

The festivities began at midday, with a presentation of gifts from both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall. An audience of 2,500, including cabinet ministers and opposition leaders, filled the hall

This Day in History | 1991 Giant of rock dies

The lead singer for rock group Queen died quietly at his home in west London of bronchio-pneumonia, brought on by Aids, his publicist said. The flamboyant star is thought to have

This Day in History | 1945 US flag raised over Iwo Jima

US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese- held volcanic island. The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marine Division took Mount

This Day in History | 1969 Second Apollo mission lands on Moon

Apollo 12 almost failed before it began because of a leaking hydrogen tank, but launch crews raced against time to change it before takeoff. There was another moment of drama shortly

This Day in History | 1985 Volcano kills thousands in Colombia

The worst-affected was Armero, the province of Tolima’s second largest city, about 50 miles from the Colombian capital, Bogota. Armero, which lay in a valley below the 16,200-foot high (4,937m)

This Day in History | 1982 Brezhnev rumors sweep Moscow

Light entertainment programs were replaced by somber documentaries about the Russian revolution and the Second World War. Newsreaders on the main evening news bulletin dressed in black but made no

This Day in History | 1989 Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall

They surged through cheering and shouting and were be met by jubilant West Berliners on the other side. Ecstatic crowds immediately began to clamber on top of the Wall and

This Day in History | 1951 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt

Hastings and Valetta aircraft brought in most of the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards from Tripoli in Libya, in an effort to try to quell anti-British disturbances in the region. Over the

This Day in History | 2000 British activist freed from Burma

The 27-year-old from Lancashire was sentenced to 17 years in Keng Tung jail in 1999 after being arrested for protesting against the military regime’s slaughter of ethnic minorities and carrying

This Day in History | 1974 Maze prison goes up in flames

More than 130 prisoners were injured in the trouble - nine needed hospital treatment. One officer is being treated for a suspected fractured skull. Troops were brought in to quell the

This Day in History | 1994 Israelis and Arafat share peace prize

The announcement has been marred by the resignation of one of the Nobel peace prize committee members. Kare Kristiansen objected to the honour being given to the PLO leader, whom he

This Day in History | 1967 Che Guevara ‘shot dead’

A statement issued by the commander of the Eighth Bolivian Army Division, Colonel Joaquin Zenteno Anaya, said the 39-year-old guerrilla leader was shot dead near the jungle village of Higueras,

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