NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1963, Christine Keeler, who was at the centre of the Profumo scandal, was arrested for perjury was stripped of the 100m world record he had set in 1987.

1990: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein urged Arabs to rise up against the west.

1991: Nelson Mandela was named as president of the African Nations Congress.

1991: The trial of former Panama military dictator Manuel Noriega on charges of drug trafficking, racketeering and money laundering began in Miami.

2000: Tuvalu joined the UN.

2012: An explosion at a fireworks factory in Sivakasi, southern India, killed 54 people and injured more than 70 others.

2017: Hurricane Irma, the fiercest ever recorded in the Caribbean, caused catastrophic damage in Barbuda, Saint Bartholemey, Saint Martin, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands, and killing at least 29 people.