THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
OCTOBER 12, 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed as a spy by German firing squad.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Scientists discovered four sub-groups of one of the most common brain tumours and proposed a potential new treatment to tackle the most aggressive type. OCTOBER 13, 1984: John Lowe achieved the first televised 501 score in nine darts in a major event in the quarter finals of the World Match Play championship in Slough.
OCTOBER 14, 1969: The 50p decimal coin was first issued in Britain, replacing the 10 shilling note.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: More than a thousand schools marred by poor internet speeds in rural areas were hooked up to hyperfast gigabit broadband.
OCTOBER 15, 1976: Two men from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) were jailed for 35 years in connection with the murders of members of the Miami Showband.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Actor Daniel Kaluuya, England footballer Marcus Rashford and television presenter Alex Scott were named on a list of the UK’s most influential black people. OCTOBER 16, 1946: The Nuremberg executions began. They included von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg and Streicher. OCTOBER 17, 1956: Calder Hall in Cumbria, Britain’s first large-scale atomic energy station, was opened by The Queen.