On this day in history...

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1989 - Police are hunting two IRA bombers who attacked an army barracks at Tern Hill in Shropshire.

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1950 - Two people die and more are injured as violent storms and a tornado sweep through counties around London.

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1981- Peter Sutcliffe, known as the Yorkshire Ripper, is sentenced to life imprisonment after the judge describes him as "an unusually dangerous man".

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1966 - The British Government declares a state of emergency a week after the nation's seamen strike begins.

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1999 - Lawrence Dallaglio resigns as England's rugby union captain following newspaper allegations over hard drugs.

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1994 - The Camelot consortium wins the contract to run Britain's first national lottery starting in November.

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1950 - Long queues appear at garages this evening and motorists have torn their ration books into confetti after an end to petrol rationing is announced.

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1980 - The jury at the inquest of Blair Peach, the London teacher who died in a demonstration last year, returns a verdict of misadventure.

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1951 - Princess Elizabeth opens the Exhibition of Industrial Power in Glasgow - the latest show in the Festival of Britain.

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1953 - New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.