1868: The leader of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, the Earl of Cardigan, died.

1906: The New York Meteorological Office announced that it would soon be possible to forecast the weather.

1917: The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was founded.

1930: The Turkish cities of Angora and Constantinople, changed their names to Ankara and Istanbul respectively.

1944: MPs voted to pay women teachers the same wages at male teachers.

1955: New Zealand were all-out for 26 against England. It was the lowest Test total in history.

1968: The rock musical 'Hair' opened on Broadway.

1973: Marlon Brando rejected his Oscar in protest at the way Native Americans were portrayed on film.

1983: Duran Duran held the top spot in the charts with Is There Something I Should Know.

1996: The Dandy announced that Desperate Dan was giving up his cow-pie only diet and eating other foods in response to the beef crisis and mad cows disease.