ON THIS DAY

1814: British forces invade Washington and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1932: Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly non-stop from Los Angeles to New Jersey.

1968: France explodes a hydrogen bomb and becomes world’s fifth thermonuclear power.

1976: Two Soviet cosmonauts return to Earth after 48 days in orbit in a space laboratory.

1992: South Korea and China establish diplomatic relations for first time since Korea was divided.

2012: Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, 33, found guilty for murder of 77 people in two attacks.

2015: Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the NBN will deliver “plenty of bandwidth” to those in rural and remote areas.

Birthdays: Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986); English actor Stephen Fry (1957-); Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki (1990-).