NOW & THEN

2 Tom Morris achieved golf’s first recorded hole-inone at Prestwick Golf Club’s eighth hole on this day in 1869 1990: Britain announced intention to send 6,000 troops and 120 tanks to the Gulf as part of huge military build-up.

1990: Inflation reached 10.6 per cent – the highest level since February, 1982.

1994: Colin Stagg, accused of murdering Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common, London, was freed by an Old Bailey judge, who condemned police attempts to lure him into a confession.

1995: Campaigners welcomed a reprieve for the London-west Highland sleeper train.

2003: In a referendum, Estonia approved joining the EU.

2009: Three men who plotted to detonate liquid bombs on flights from the UK to North America were jailed for life at Woolwich Crown Court.

2012: Twenty-one people were killed when a ferry sank in Indonesia.