NOW & THEN

0 American multi-millionaire Howard Hughes achieved the first of several aviation records on this day in 1935

Selassie was deposed by leaders of the armed forces.

1989: Poland elected its first non-communist government since the Second World War.

1990: Britain, USA, France, USSR, East and West Germany, allowed the two Germanys to merge.

1995: Michael Hutchence of INXS pleaded guilty to punching a photographer.

2003: The United Nations lifted sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

2003: In Fallujah, US forces mistakenly shot and killed eight Iraqi police officers.

2012: Excavators announced they may have found the remains of King Richard III buried under a car park in Leicester.

2015: Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Labour Party leader.