NOW & THEN

0 Shortshanks’ vision of a steam-powered future from the Edinburgh Review, which debuted on this day in 1802 1981: Former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s funeral was held in Cairo.

1983: Israel’s Knesset voted 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister.

1988: Sandy Lyle won the World Matchplay Golf Championship at Wentworth.

1988: Suspected Tamil militants attacked village in northern Sri Lanka, killing at least 47 people.

1990: Left-wing guerrillas bolted door of a passenger train carriage in southern India and set it on fire, killing at least 47.

1997: An Austral Airlines DC-932 crashed and exploded near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay, killing 74.

2006: The Greek city of Volos flooded in one of the prefecture’s worst recorded floods.

2009: After closed borders for nearly 200 years, Armenia and Turkey agreed in Zurich to open them.