NOW & THEN

0 Apache chief Geronimo surrendered on this day in 1886; he ended his days as a top-hatted farmer in Oklahoma to win seven gold medals at a single Olympics at Munich.

1976: Dancing Queen by Abba reached No 1 in the UK.

1990: Convoy carrying 306 British women and children stranded since Iraqi invasion reached Baghdad after 14-hour journey from Kuwait.

1992: The government borrowed £7.25 billion to help prop up the pound.

1998: Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

2009: Hundreds of homes were evacuated as flooding caused devastation from the Lothians to Moray.

2010: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck the South Island of New Zealand, causing widespread damage.

2017: The Queen officially opened the Queensferry Crossing.