ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

March 9

❑ 1 year ago… Eurovision entry

Singer Mae Muller is chosen to represent the UK at the finals in Liverpool with I Wrote A Song. She would finish second last.

❑ 3 years ago… End of the Piers show

Piers Morgan storms off the set of ITV’s Good Morning Britain after a row with weatherman Alex Beresford, following the host’s remarks over the Duchess of Sussex.

❑ 8 years ago… ‘Bad Grandpas’ jailed

Members of the elderly gang behind the £15million Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Ltd heist are given up to seven years in prison for their part in the burglary.

❑ 23 years ago… Celeb Big Brother launches

The first series of the show is broadcast in aid of Comic Relief. Comedian Jack Dee would emerge as the winner.

❑ 27 years ago… Notorious B.I.G. shot

The US rapper is gunned down in a drive-by shooting as he leaves a party in Los Angeles. He dies aged 24.

❑ 37 years ago… U2’s hit

The Joshua Tree, the fifth studio album by Bono, left, and the band, is released, going on to top the charts in 20 countries.

❑ 48 years ago… Cable car tragedy

A cable car line snaps at the northern Italy ski resort of Cavalese killing 42 people. It’s the worst disaster of its kind ever.

❑ 58 years ago… Kray killing

Gangster Ronnie Kray, one of the notorious Kray Twins, shoots rival George Cornell dead in the Blind Beggar pub in London’s East End.

❑ 65 years ago… Barbie debuts

The doll created by American Ruth Handler is unveiled at a toy fair in New York. Some 350,000 units will be sold in its first year.

❑ 90 years ago… Spaceman born

Yuri Gagarin, right, is born in Russia. He became a Soviet Union cosmonaut and the first person in space in 1961.

❑ 228 years ago… Boney weds

Future French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais of “Not tonight, Josephine” fame.

❑ 458 years ago… Royal assassination

David Rizzio, the Italian private secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, is stabbed to death in front of the monarch, in a conspiracy involving her husband Lord Darnley.