NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1936 the last Thylacine died in Hobart Zoo; this specimen was photographed in 1930

Africa.

1986: Five bodyguards were killed and 11 other people wounded in a failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Augosto Pinochet, when a guerilla group attacked a presidential convoy.

1989: Three Bronze Age bracelets, found on a farm at Gulval, Cornwall, sold for £25,500 at a Penzance auction.

.1996: American hip-hop star Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas.

1999: A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocked Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.

2009: Sir Terry Wogan announced that he was stepping down as presenter of Radio 2’s breakfast show, to be replaced by Chris Evans.

2014: Asteroid 2014 RC made a close approach to Earth ( a distance of 24,800 miles).