SWINDON...

1947: Damage estimated at more than £200 was caused by a fire in a wooden storage building at Snap, Aldbourne. The store contained about two tons of baled hay, 200 bundles of threshing straw, dairy chemicals and more.

1955: Cash and tempers were beginning to run short for some of the 505 Swindon footplate men as the railway strikes entered their second week.

1975: The Government was looking at imposing further spending cuts on Wiltshire County Council, meaning children may not be accepted at any school in the county until they are five and there would be a clamp on the number staying on after 16.

2013: Tributes were paid to former Mayor of Swindon Rex Barnett after he passed away following a battle with lung cancer.

THE WORLD...

1458: Magdalen College, Oxford, was founded.

1839: Abner Doubleday was credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.

1842: Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School, died the day before his 47th birthday. During his headship, the game of rugby was created by accident when a handball rule was broken by William Webb Ellis during a football match.

1908: The Rotherhithe-Stepney road tunnel under the Thames was opened.

1922: Insulin, the treatment for diabetes, was patented by Frederick Banting.

1930: Germany’s Max Schmeling won the world heavyweight boxing title against Jack Sharkey in New York on a disqualification in round four – and is the only man to win the title in such a manner.

1965: The Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

1987: Princess Anne was made Princess Royal, the title awarded to the monarch’s eldest daughter.

1989: MPs voted 293 to 69 to allow television cameras into the House of Commons.

2013: The number of over 65s in a job reached a record one million, new figures revealed.

BORN...

1819: Charles Kingsley, English clergyman who wrote The Water Babies.

1941: Chick Corea, jazz pianist.

1945: Pat Jennings, former footballer.

1946: Bobby Gould, football manager.

1960: Mark Calcavecchia, golfer.

1961: Neil ‘Dr’ Fox, DJ.

1965: Cathy Tyson, actress.

1977: Richard Ayoade, actor/director.

1981: Adriana Lima, supermodel.

DIED...

1980: Billy Butlin, founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)

1994: Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35

1994: Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27

2003: Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)

2007: Don Herbert aka ‘Mr. Wizard’, American television host (b. 1917)

2012: Henry Hill Jr., American mobster and FBI informant, dies at 69