Air Arms Owners Club

1950 - Rescuers say 116 miners trapped in Knockshinnoch Castle colliery in Scotland following a landslide are safe.

1988 - English cricket captain Graham Gooch and seven other members of his squad are refused visas to travel to India.

1973 - Scotland Yard hunts a teenage suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injure 13 people and bring chaos to central London.

1980 - The Marlborough diamond is stolen from a London jewelers in a bold £1m robbery.

1959 - A massive Russian rocket, carrying 860lb (391Kg) of scientific instruments, is successfully launched at the Moon.

1980 - The bear (Hercules) who went missing on a Scottish island (Benbecula) while being filmed for a television commercial (Kleenex) is recaptured.

1981 - A teenage boy (Marcus Sarjeant) from Capel le Ferne,a village near Folkstone, Kent, who fired shots at the Queen last June pleads guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act and is jailed for five years.

2000 - The fuel protests which have paralysed Britain for seven days are at an end.

1977 - Pop star Marc Bolan (Mark Feld) 29, is killed in a car crash in south-west London.

1952 - The United States prevents film legend Charlie Chaplin from returning to Hollywood until he is investigated by the Immigration Services.