This Week In History

long-serving Rovers Return landlady Annie Walker in Coronation Street, dies aged 95.

– The engagement of Prince William and Catherine (Kate) Middleton is announced.

– Fire engulfs the Ballantynes department store in Christchurch, killing 41 people.

– In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the guidance of cult leader Jim Jones, 47.

– The movie Star Trek: Generations, starring Patrick Stewart, is released. Exactly two years later, Star Trek: First Contact also premieres.

– Catherine Zeta-Jones, 31, and Michael Douglas, 56, are wed in New York. On the same day, Queen guitarist Brian May, 53, marries EastEnders actress Anita Dobson, 51, in Surrey.

– Actors Tom Cruise, 44, and Katie Holmes, 27, are married at Odescalchi Castle, Bracciano in Italy.

– Jonah Lomu, the youngest All Black who went on to play 63 tests and become a global star of the game, dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease. He was 40.

NOVEMBER 19

– After a successful space mission, Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

– One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson, is released. It won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1976.

– Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is discovered they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know It’s True album.

– Explosions rip through the Pike River mine on New Zealand’s West Coast and 29 workers are killed.