NOW & THEN

0 On this day in 1746, the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite forces at the battle of Culloden deposed in an army coup.

1994: A British Sea Harrier was shot down over Bosnia, as UN jets tried to halt a Serbian assault on the town.

2003: The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the EU.

2004: The super liner RMS Queen Mary 2 embarked on her first trans-atlantic crossing.

2007: Gunman Cho Seung Hui killed 32 students and staff at Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, US, then shot himself.

2009: Scientists created a clock that takes 300 million years to lose just one second.

2014: A ferry carrying

475 passengers, mostly schoolchildren, sank off South Korea. Rescuers reported 14 people confirmed dead and more than 280 missing.