THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1934 - World’s first-known surviving quintuplets, Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne, are born on the family’s farm near Callander, Ontario

1971 - Soviet Union launches spacecraft towards planet Mars containing the first capsules to land on the planet

1987 - Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, lands a private plane in Moscow’s Red Square after evading Soviet air defences

2012 - Gotye wins Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year for

Somebody That I Used to Know at the APRA Music Awards

2017 - Schapelle Corby arrives back in Australia after serving nine years in an Indonesian prison for smuggling cannabis