ON OCTOBER 22 . . .

IN 1938, American scientist Chester F. Carlson made the first photocopied image, after four years of experiments in his kitchen and mother-in-law’s beauty salon.

IN 1966, The Supremes became the first girl group to achieve a No 1 album in the U.S. with The Supremes A’ Go-Go — knocking The Beatles’ Revolver off the top spot.

IN 1974, a suspected IRA bomb injured three staff in Brooks’s club, London. The then Tory leader Edward Heath insisted he was not the target, saying: ‘I didn’t decide to have dinner out until a quarter of an hour before.’