On this day in history...

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1945 - British troops enter and liberate the concentration camp (Bergen-Belsen) after negotiating a truce with the German commandant.

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1964 - Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history have been imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery".

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1960 - At least 60,000 demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of the Aldermaston to London "ban the bomb". march

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1956 - Prince Rainier of Monaco marries film actress Grace Kelly in a religious ceremony at the Cathedral of Monaco.

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1974 - The conflict in Northern Ireland has claimed it's 1,000th victim, a petrol station owner from County Fermanagh.

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1955 - National newspapers are published for the first time in nearly a month following the end of the maintenance workers' strike.

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1959 - The British ballerina arrives in New York after spending 24 hours in a Panamanian prison.

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1968 - The first decimal coins make their way into purses throughout Britain in preparation for replacing the current system of pounds,shillings and pence by 1971.

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1982 - A crewman of a sea king helicopter on it's way to the Falklands is missing and presumed dead after the aircraft crashed making him the first Briton to die in the Falklands campaign.

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1982 - Britain re-establishes it's presence in the Falkland Islands after a two-hour assault by Royal Marines on the remote island of South Georgia.