ON THIS DAY

• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, the French engineer who built the great landmark that bears his name for the Paris Exhibition of 1899, was born.

• The premiere of Gone With The Wind took place at Atlanta, Georgia.

• Walt Disney, cartoon film producer and creator, died aged 65.

• Two Canadians, Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, came up with the idea for a game called Trivial Pursuit. It was manufactured in 1982 and sold 45 million copies worldwide in its first five years.

• More than 470 people drowned when a ferry carrying mainly Egyptian pilgrims sank in the Red Sea.

• Nelson Mandela was buried after a funeral ceremony that included a 21-gun salute and fly-overs by military aircraft as well as a eulogy by a traditional African leader wearing an animal skin.