On This Day: 10 January 1954 – Comet Jet Crashes With 35 On Board
Thirty-five people are missing, feared dead, after a Comet jet airliner crashed into the Mediterranean.
The plane - a British Overseas Airways Corporation jet...
On this Day : 20 March 1974 – Kidnap attempt on Princess Anne
Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips have escaped an apparent kidnap attempt in which four people were wounded.
The royal couple were returning...
On this Day: 19 January 1988 – Disabled author wins Whitbread
Writer Christopher Nolan, who cannot move or speak because of an accident at birth, has won the Whitbread Book of the Year.
The 21-year-old Dubliner,...
On This Day: November 4 1995 – Israeli PM shot dead
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has been assassinated.
Mr Rabin was shot three times at close range in the stomach and chest by an assailant...
On this Day: 16 January 1992 – Controversial Diana book published
A controversial new book about the Princess of Wales claims she attempted suicide on several occasions over the last decade, and portrays her as...
On this Day : 12 March 1999 – Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies
One of the 20th century's finest musicians Yehudi Menuhin has died, aged 82.
Lord Menuhin was in Berlin, Germany, to conduct a concert when he...
On This Day: January 24
1966: 117 die in Air India tragedy
Up to 117 people have been killed after an Air India Boeing 707 crashed near the summit of...
On This Day: 29 February 1960 – Thousands dead in Moroccan earthquake
A huge earthquake has devastated the southern Moroccan city of Agadir killing thousands.
A major operation is now underway to rescue scores of people, including...
On this Day : 11 January 1998: 100 die in massacre in Algeria
The Algerian government has blamed Islamic extremists for the deaths of more than 100 people, who were killed when two villages were attacked.
The latest...
On This Day: 21 January 1950 – Acclaimed author George Orwell dies
The writer, George Orwell, has died after a three-year battle against tuberculosis.
Until the last, news had been positive and it was hoped Mr Orwell...
On this Day : 11 March 1955 – Farewell to scientist who discovered penicillin
Sir Alexander Fleming - the man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin - has died of a heart attack. He was 73.
Sir Alexander...
On this Day: 13 January 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
At least 13 people have been killed and more than 140 injured by the Soviet military in the capital of Lithuania as Moscow continues...