ON DAY THIS
1035: Death of Canute, Danish King of England.
1911: The Rev Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, was born.
1931: Abbey Road recording studio in London was opened.
1944: Tirpitz, last of Hitler’s fleet of “unsinkable battleships”, was sunk off the Norwegian coast by Lancaster bombers.
1979: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US president Jimmy Carter ordered a halt to all petroleum imports from Iran.
1990: Crown Prince Akihito was formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
1997: Ramzi Yousef was found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-ratcliffe endured his 20th day on hunger strike, after a meeting with a Foreign Office minister left him feeling “deflated” about his wife’s continued detention in Iran.