On this day in history...

Bunny Bagger · Mon Jun 27, 2016 6:14 am

1957 - The link between smoking and lung cancer is one of 'direct cause and effect', a report by the Medical Research Council finds.

Bunny Bagger · Tue Jun 28, 2016 2:53 pm

1960 -At least 37 men are killed in a gas explosion at a coal mine in Monmouthshire, Wales.

Bunny Bagger · Wed Jun 29, 2016 12:17 pm

1986 - Millionaire Richard Branson smashes the world record for the fastest powerboat crossing of the Atlantic.

Bunny Bagger · Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:01 am

1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes her place in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.

Bunny Bagger · Sat Jul 02, 2016 10:30 am

1970 - Police seize a large cache of arms in West London in one of the biggest raids in Britain for years.

Bunny Bagger · Sun Jul 03, 2016 4:34 am

1971 - The lead singer of American rock group The Doors dies of Heart failure in Paris, aged 27.

Bunny Bagger · Mon Jul 04, 2016 5:54 am

1954 - Fourteen years of food rationing in Britain is over as restrictions on the sale and purchase of meat, and bacon in particular, are lifted.

Bunny Bagger · Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:17 am

1954 - The BBC broadcasts its first daily television news programme.

Bunny Bagger · Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:05 pm

1988 - An out-of-control fire on (Piper Alpha) a North Sea oil rig is feared to have claimed the lives of most of those on board.

Bunny Bagger · Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:01 am

2005 - A series of bomb attacks on London's transport network kills more than 30 people and injures about 700 others.