NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1963 Doctor Who was broadcast for the first time – William Hartnell has fun in rehearsals in 1965 from life sentence for bribery in Baghdad after government agreed to release £70m of Iraq’s frozen assets.

1993: Rachel Whiteread won both the £20,000 Turner Prize award for best British modern artist and the £40,000 K Foundation art award for the worst artist of the year.

2001: The Convention on Cybercrime was signed in Budapest, Hungary.

2005: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia and became the first woman to lead an African country.

2007: MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg. There were no fatalities.

2010: North Korea bombarded Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Two civilians and two South Korean marines died.