On this day in history...

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1954 - Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.

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2001 - More than 1,000 cattle on two farms near Exmoor will be slaughtered - even though they show no signs of foot-and-mouth disease - in order to protect Exmoor from infection.

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1940 - German forces invade the Low Countries by air and land, while in London Chamberlain is replaced by Churchill.

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1971 - The daily sketch newspaper (Britain's oldest tabloid) which was founded in 1909 has been published for the last time.

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1967 - The British Government gives the go-ahead to proposals to convert Stansted into an international airport.

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1995 - A British mother of two (Alison Hargreaves, 33) becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.

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1957 - Relief across the country as the paymaster general announces restrictions on fuel consumption imposed during the Suez crisis are to be lifted.

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Two women and a man are killed after an entire corner of a new block of flats in London's East End collapses.

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1943 - An audacious RAF raid into the industrial heartland of Germany smashes dams using revolutionary bombs to flood the Ruhr Valley.

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1991 - Britain's first astronaut, 27-year-old Helen Sharman from Sheffield, has blasted into orbit.