NOW & THEN

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comparative chart of American boxer Joe Louis and Britain’s Tommy Farr, who fought on this day in 1937 heavyweight champion Frank Bruno retired from the ring after a doctor’s warning over his eyesight.

2007: Manchester suffered its sixth earthquake of August. The latest tremor measured 2.4 on the Richter scale.

2009: Dame Vera Lynn, at 92 years of age, became the oldest living artist to make it into the top 20 of the UK albums chart.

2010: Hundreds of air travellers had their flights disrupted after a major power failure hit Aberdeen Airport.

2017: The Queensferry Crossing – the £1.35 billion newly-built road bridge across the Firth of Forth – opened. An estimated 100,000 vehicles used the bridge on its first day, causing gridlock on its approach roads with tailbacks of five miles southbound and three miles northbound.