1997 MPs in the House of Commons approved a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Labour MP Michael Foster, to ban fox hunting.

1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash.
One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers is killed in a plane crash in south-east England.

30th November is St Andrew’s Day. He is the patron saint of Scotland, also of golfers and fishermen.

1990 Britain and France were joined for the first time in thousands of years as the last wall of rock separating two halves of the Channel Tunnel was removed.

1929 Britain’s first 22 public telephone boxes came into service.

1836 Three people were killed at Great Corby, near Carlisle in Cumbria, in the first fatal railway derailment.

1791 The Observer, Britain’s oldest Sunday newspaper, was first published.

1991: Maxwell business empire faces bankruptcy.
Administrators are called in to try to salvage the Maxwell business empire, which is at least £1bn in debt.

1983: Transplant makes British medical history.
Surgeons have successfully completed the first heart and lung transplant operation to be performed in Britain.

1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbour.
Japan launches a surprise attack on American bases in the Pacific and declares it is at war with Britain and the United States.

1980: John Lennon shot dead.
Former Beatle John Lennon is shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment.

1952: London fog clears after days of chaos.
The sunshine returns following four days of thick fog that brought the capital to a standstill.

Aids virus 1981: Mystery disease kills homosexuals
Mystery disease is causing increasing concern among medical practitioners in the United States.

2005: Massive fire at Buncefield oil depot.
A huge fire continues to burn at a major fuel depot in Hertfordshire after a series of explosions early this morning.

1966 English sailor Francis Chichester arrived at Sydney in his ketch Gipsy Moth IV - half way in his bid to become the first man to sail solo around the world.