Timetrip

1520: Montezuma II, the last Aztec emperor, is killed during the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

1845: Australia gets its first legal hotel, the Hero of Waterloo in Sydney.

1894: London’s Tower Bridge is officially opened.

1915: Australia’s first military itary pilot, pilot Lieutenant George Merz, is killed by Arabs after his Cauldron plane is forced down by engine trouble over Mesopotamia during World War I. 1936: Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel,

Gone with the Wind, is published. 1938: A Superman comic strip is published for the first time.

1965: A ceasefire is signed between India and Pakistan.

1994: The US Figure Skating Association strips Tonya Harding (above) of the 1994 national championship and bans her from the organisation for life for her involvement in an attack on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan.

1997: At the stroke of midnight, Hong Kong is handed back to China after 156 years of British rule.