1986: Eastwood voted mayor by landslide.
Residents of the Californian town of Carmel have overwhelmingly voted for actor Clint Eastwood as their mayor.

1969: Sikh busmen win turban fight.
Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton have won the right to wear turbans on duty after a long-running campaign.

1998: Northern Ireland peace deal reached.
The Northern Ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement called the Good Friday Agreement.

1981: Brixton ablaze after riot.
The arrest of a black man leads to hundreds of youths rampaging through the streets of Brixton in south London.

1961: Soviets win space race.
The Soviet Union beats the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gagarin becomes a national hero.

1964: Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win.
Sidney Poitier has become the first black person to win the best actor Oscar.

1970: Critical explosion cripples Apollo 13.
An explosion on board Apollo 13 causes one of the most critical situations in American space history.

1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen.
British troops enter the concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant.

1964: 'Great Train Robbers' get 300 years.
Some of the longest sentences in British criminal history have been imposed on men involved in the so-called "Great Train Robbery".

1984: Libyan embassy shots kill policewoman.
A police officer has been killed after shots were fired from the Libyan People's Bureau in central London.

1955: Albert Einstein dies.
Eminent scientist Dr Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, dies in hospital aged 76.

2001: Drugs firms withdraw from Aids case.
The world's biggest pharmaceutical companies have backed out of a landmark court battle over cheap anti-Aids drugs.

1972: Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis.
The Apollo 16 manned mission to the Moon lands after a seven-hour crisis which nearly aborts the mission.

1945: Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin.
Russian troops capture some outlying suburbs of Berlin at the beginning of what promises to be a bitter battle for control of the city.

1838 The British steamer Sirius became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean from England to New York. The voyage took 18 days and 10 hours.