On this day in history...

Bunny Bagger · Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:53 am

1952 - Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia sets the pace at the start of the Olympic Games in Finland by breaking the 10,000 metres record.

Bunny Bagger · Thu Jul 21, 2016 5:43 am

1982 - The flagship of the British taskforce to the Falklands, HMS Hermes, arrives back in Portsmouth.

Bunny Bagger · Fri Jul 22, 2016 2:11 pm

1991 - British Prime Minister John Major launches a citizen's charter to improve public services.

Bunny Bagger · Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:17 am

1986 - Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson marry at Westminster Abbey.

Bunny Bagger · Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:19 am

1969 - British lecturer Gerald Brooke is returned to London after four years in a Soviet jail.

Bunny Bagger · Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:19 am

2000 - Concorde crashes minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people.

Bunny Bagger · Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:06 am

1945 - Clement Attlee is Britain's new prime minister after Labour win a sweeping victory over the Conservatives.

Bunny Bagger · Wed Jul 27, 2016 6:05 am

2000 - The Labour Government announces the most radical re-organisation of the NHS since it was founded in 1948.

Bunny Bagger · Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:30 am

2005 - The IRA formally an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.

Bunny Bagger · Fri Jul 29, 2016 5:25 am

1981 - Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.