NOW & THEN

0 Mary Whitehouse set up the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association on this day in 1965 that crashed in fog over north London.

1988: South African presidential council rejected proposed bill that would have tightened enforcement of residential segregation laws.

1989: India’s prime minister Rajiv Gandhi resigned.

1989: Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary.

1990: John Major was criticised for his all-male Cabinet, the first since 1964.

1995: The Conservative government announced an expanded role for the Scottish Grand Committee by switching some parliamentary proceedings from Westminster, including examination of the prime minister and Cabinet ministers.

2013: A helicopter crashed through the roof of the crowded Clutha Bar in central Glasgow, killing ten people.