NOW & THEN

0 An underground train on the Central London Railway, opened on this day in 1900, which became the Central Line West Bank to the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

1991: Luciano Pavarotti’s 30th anniversary concert drew 125,000 people to Hyde Park, London.

1991: UN weapons experts reported finding 46,000 chemical weapons in Iraq, about four times what Baghdad had declared.

2003: In Mexico, the last “old style” Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.

2006: The world’s longest running music show Top of the Pops was broadcast for the last time on BBC2. The show had aired for 42 years.

2008: The BBC was fined a record £400,000 by Ofcom for faking phone-in winners in competitions on Comic Relief, Children in Need, Sport Relief, the Liz Kershaw Show and the Jo Wiley Show.