NOW & THEN

2 Disneyland opened in California on this day in 1955 and it went straight to No 1 in the charts.

1967: First anti-litter campaign begun by the new Keep Britain Tidy group.

1975: Ringo Starr and Maureen Cox were divorced.

1976: Forever and Ever by Demis Roussos hit the number one spot in the UK charts.

1984: Soyuz T-12 carried three cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7.

1988: Florence Griffith Joyner set a world record of 10.49 seconds for the women’s 100m.

1995: Forbes magazine declared Bill Gates to be the world’s richest man with a fortune of 12.9 billion dollars.

1998: The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and his family were buried in St Petersburg.