1862 – 24th Grand National: Harry Lamplugh wins aboard The Huntsman; first French trained winner; only human fatality recorded in the event, jockey Joe Wynne
1897 – Vincent d’Indy’s opera “Fervaal” premieres in Brussels
1981 – Walter R T Witschey installs world’s largest sundial in Richmond, Virginia
1983 – Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,000th show
1995 – Ice Pairs Championship at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova and Rene Novotny
1996 – Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
2012 – 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2013 – JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
2019 – Theresa May’s British government suffers a second defeat on a Brexit deal with the EU, 391 votes to 242