NOW & THEN
2 On this day in 1949 Tate & Lyle’s Mr Cube was introduced – and he was fighting mad of island into two areas and declared ceasefire.
Nine people were hacked to death at train station in Soweto, South Africa.
1990: Saddam Hussein offered to end ten years of conflict with Iran, to concentrate Iraq’s forces against the international army mustered in Saudi Arabia after the invasion of Kuwait.
2006: Private Harry Farr pardoned 90 years after he was executed by firing squad for cowardice during the First World War.
2008: Usain Bolt of Jamaica set a new world record of 9.69secs for 100 metres at the Beijing Olympic Games.
2012: South African police opened fire on striking mine workers and killed 34 people.
2013: The ferry MV Thomas sank in the Philippines, with the loss of 61 lives.