ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

❑ 1 year ago…Fashion icon dies Dame Mary Quant, inset, the British clothes designer who pioneered the miniskirt in the 60s dies aged 93 at home in Surrey.

❑ 2 years ago…MP killer gets life Convicted of the 2021 murder of the Conservative MP David Amess, killer Ali Harbi Ali is sentenced to life.

❑ 7 years ago… Mega blast The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon against Islamic State fighters. Nicknamed Mother Of All Bombs – it measured 30ft and weighed 11 tons.

❑ 15 years ago…Actress murder conviction In a retrial, US record producer Phil Spector is convicted of murdering actress Lana Clarkson, who he shot in 2003.

❑ 20 years ago…TV star tragedy Presenter Caron Keating, famous for starring on Blue Peter and daughter of TV star Gloria Hunniford, dies aged 41 after battling breast cancer.

❑ 27 years ago…Golfing superstar American golfer Tiger Woods, 21, becomes the youngest and first non-white person to win golf’s Masters Tournament at Augusta, Georgia.

❑ 54 years ago… Space emergency Nasa’s Apollo 13 mission to the moon is aborted after an oxygen tank explodes. The crew eventually manages to get the craft back to Earth.

❑ 59 years ago…Help! recorded The Beatles song Help! is recorded at EMI Studios in Abbey Road. It was No1 for three weeks.

❑ 61 years ago…Oscars first Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win the Best Actor Academy Award, for his role in the movie Lillies In The Field.

❑ 71 years ago…Bond book debuts Former intelligence officer Ian Fleming publishes his first 007 novel, Casino Royale.

❑105 years ago… Notorious massacre Brigadier General Reginald Dwyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd in Amritsar, India, leading to the deaths of at least 379 people.

❑ 454 years ago…Guy Fawkes born The future member of the Gunpowder Plot, which aimed to blow up Parliament in 1605, is born in York.