1791: The first performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute took place in Vienna.

1888: Jack the Ripper butchered two more women - Liz Stride, found behind 40 Berber Street, and Kate Eddowes, in Mitre Square, both in London.

1933: Franklin D Roosevelt announced his $700 million New Deal to help America's poor.

1935: George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess was premiered in Boston.

1936: Pinewood Studios opened near Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, to provide Britain with a film studio to compete with Hollywood.

1938: On his return from Germany, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told a crowd at Heston Airport, Middlesex: "I believe it is peace in our time", and waved the agreement he had signed with Hitler.

1939: Identity cards were issued in Britain.

1955: James Dean, eccentric young star of Rebel Without A Cause, Giant and East Of Eden, died in a car crash, aged 24.

1965: Judge Elizabeth Lane was sworn in to become Britain's first female High Court Judge.

1967: BBC's Radio 1 went on air for the first time, with Tony Blackburn introducing The Breakfast Show. His first record was Flowers In The Rain by The Move.

LAST YEAR: Police arrested 11 suspected Algerian terrorists in a series of dawn raids on addresses in London and Manchester.