NOW & THEN

0 Judy Garland leads the Wizard of Oz cast and executives in a singalong. The film premiered on this day in 1939. farm in New York state.

1971: Bahrain gained independence from Great Britain.

1989: Frederick de Clerk became president of South Africa.

1991: Paul Simon’s free concert in Central Park, New York attracted 750,000 music fans.

1994: The world’s most wanted terrorist, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – known as Carlos the Jackal – was arrested in Sudan and extradited to France.

1998: A car bomb killed 29 people in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

2007: Wendy Alexander was unopposed as new head of the Labour Party in Scotland, after former first minister Jack Mcconnell stood down following the party’s Scottish Parliament election defeat in May.