On this day

104 YEARS AGO (1914)

With photos of the Royal Navy’s Dreadnaught battleships, we told of land and sea battles two days after Britain’s declaration of war against Germany.

57 YEARS AGO (1961)

The Soviet Union sent its second cosmonaut into space, Major Gherman Titov orbiting Earth in a one-man Vostok II spacecraft.

27 YEARS AGO (1991)

The world’s first website was put online by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN research organisation in Switzerland.