NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1936, unemployed shipyard workers began the Jarrow March to London to petition the government and the Presbyterian Church of England combined to form the United Reformed Church.

1974: The IRA Guildford pub bombings, in which five people died and 65 were injured, took place.

1991: Film star Elizabeth Taylor was married for the eighth time, to Larry Fortensky, whom she met at an alcohol clinic.

1995: Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1999: The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in London killed 31 people.

2000: Slobodan Milosevic, president of Yugoslavia, was toppled by a popular uprising.

2001: Robert Stevens became the first victim in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

2010: A major fire destroyed most of Hastings Pier in East Sussex.