NOW & THEN

0 The first set of traffic lights in the UK went live at a junction in Picadilly Circus on this day in 1926

1975: Two river boats collided and sank in Xi Jiang River, China, causing 500 people to drown.

1984: A bomb attack at Madras airport, India, killed 32 people.

1994: King Hussein piloted the first Jordanian plane to fly over Israeli airspace.

2001: The Real IRA detonated a car bomb in Ealing, London, injuring seven people.

2008: Actor Morgan Freeman was injured in a road accident in Mississippi when his car flipped over several times.

2010: The Royal Bank of Scotland was fined £5.6 million for failing to do enough to ensure customers and their transactions could not be linked to terrorism.

2012: The UN General Assembly reproached the UN Security Council over its lack of action in Syria.