NOW & THEN

0 The Piltdown Skull, “discovered” by Charles Dawson in Sussex in 1912, was found to be a hoax in this day in 1953 1991: Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian deputy prime minister, was elected as first African secretary general of the UN to succeed Javier Perez de Cuellar.

1995: Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia accepted a United Statesbrokered peace deal aimed at ending the war in Bosnia.

1996: Forty-five people died in an office block fire in Hong Kong.

2002: Nato invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

2008: Pop star Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie were granted a divorce at the High Court in London.

2011: Gold-winning Scottish athlete Liz Mccolgan was cleared of attacking her husband in the family home.

2013: A supermarket roof collapsed in the Latvian capital Riga, killing more than 50 people.