NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1995, former American Football star OJ Simpson was cleared of murdering his ex-wife and her friend mayor of West Berlin.

1959: The post code, required in the addressing of mail for mechanical sorting, was first used in Britain, in Norwich.

1971: Luna 19, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft, went into orbit around the Moon.

1972: American president Richard Nixon signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty with the Soviet Union.

1977: India’s former prime minister Indira Gandhi was arrested on charges of corruption while in office.

1990: East and West Germany were reunited as the Federal Republic of Germany.

1995: Former American football star and film actor OJ Simpson was cleared at the end of a ninemonth trial of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her male friend, Ronald Goldman.