NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1945, the US atomic bomb “Fat Man” destroyed more than half of Japanese city of Nagasaki 1979: Brighton established the first nudist beach in Britain, despite protests from those who feared “great depravity”.

1984: Daley Thompson of Great Britain set a new record of 8,847 points for the decathlon at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

1995: BBC radio reporter John Schofield, 29, was shot dead by Croatian troops in the former Yugoslavia.

1999: Russian president Boris Yeltsin sacked his prime minister, Sergei Stepashin, as well as, for the fourth time, his entire Cabinet.

1999: Charles Kennedy became leader of the Liberal Democrats, succeeding Paddy Ashdown.

2012: Usain Bolt of Jamaica became the first athlete to win both the 100 metres and 200 metres in back-to-back Olympic Games when he completed the double at the London Games.