ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
September 24
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1 year ago…Pump panic
Panic buying leads to queues at the petrol pumps as PM Boris Johnson, below, relaxes immigration rules over a shortage of delivery drivers.
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3 years ago…Bozo rap
The UK Supreme Court rules the suspension of Parliament for five weeks by Bozo’s Tory government was unlawful.
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7 years ago… Mecca tragedy
A stampede of people during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia kills more than 700 people and leaves over 900 injured.
❑ 27 years ago… Sexy scene
The BBC begins screening a TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It causes a sensation with a scene featuring actor Colin Firth in a wet shirt.
❑ 30 years ago… Minister quits
Tory MP David Mellor resigns from the government as heritage minister following the exposure of his affair with actress Antonia de Sancha.
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34 years ago…
Gong wrong
At the Seoul Olympics Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, right, wins the 100metres final in a world record time of 9.79seconds, but later loses the gold medal over doping.
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46 years ago… Hearst sentenced
US heiress Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years for bank robbery with the group who had kidnapped her. This was later commuted and she would eventually be pardoned.
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47 years ago…
Peak pioneers
Mountaineers Dougal Haston and Doug Scott become the first British-born people to reach the top of Mount Everest.
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65 years ago… Stadium stunner
The Nou Camp for FC Barcelona opens in the city. With a capacity of nearly 100,000 it is the largest football stadium in Europe.
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70 years ago…KFC opens
The Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah in a deal struck by Colonel Harland Sanders.
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126 years ago…Gatsby author born
Future author F Scott Fitzgerald, left, is born in Minnesota and goes on to find fame with novels such as The Great Gatsby.
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The oldest of the “classic” horse races, the St Leger, is first run at Doncaster, South Yorks, with just five steeds taking part.