On this day

1931: An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.

1931: A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.

1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.

1942: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.

1959: The 14th Dalai Lama crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.

1964: Brazilian General Olimpio Mourao Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d’etat. 1966: The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

1970: Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

1985: The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York City.

1990: Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced poll tax, pictured.

1992: The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.

2004: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA are killed after being ambushed.

“We’ve not faced challenges like this in getting people home from abroad on this scale in recent memory” - Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, pictured.

“That is not a rapid acceleration number. It is an important number, it is a difficult number to deal with and it is a number that NHS staff are clearly coping with in terms of what they are doing at the moment” - The UK’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance says the NHS is seeing an additional 1,000 patients a day with coronavirus-related admissions.

“They’ve saved my life and the lives of my family multiple times, and they probably will be doing it at some point in the near future again, so please please please know we value you” - Actor James McAvoy, pictured, who donated £275,000 to a campaign to provide personal protective equipment for NHS staff.

“I’m chuffed to bits and the wheelbarrow added a bit of craic to it” - Keith Clarke from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, who ran a marathon on his driveway while pushing a wheelbarrow to raise more than £2,000 for the Intensive Care Society.

“Laughter is your best medicine, but tears can also be a powerful release. Let go of any judgment you may have around that” - Canadian rapper Drake, who shared the first photos of his son Adonis alongside a moving tribute to his family.