NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1829 the first typewriter was presented to the world by William Austin Burt

1979: Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while in New York.

1995: Comet Hale-bopp was discovered.

1999: ANA flight 61, with 508 passengers, was hijacked after taking off from Tokyo by a man wielding a kitchen knife. He forced his way into the cockpit, fatally stabbed the captain and took over the controls before eventually being subdued.

2005: Three terrorist bombs killed 88 people in the Egyptian tourist resort of Sharm-elsheikh.

2008: John Darwin, who faked his own drowning in 2002, was jailed for more than six years at Teesside Crown Court for a £250,000 insurance fraud. His wife, Anne, who played the grieving widow for five years until she was discovered in Panama, was also jailed.