THIS DAY

ran the first sub-four-minute mile on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, in three minutes 59.4 seconds.

1966: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, the Moors murderers, were found guilty at Chester Assizes and sentenced to life imprisonment.

1976: An earthquake struck Friuli in Northern Italy, causing 989 deaths and the destruction of entire villages.

1994: The Queen opened the Channel Tunnel.