1840 - The first adhesive postage stamp, the Penny Black, is officially released.
1954 - Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes.
1966 - Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to life imprisonment.
1994 - The Channel Tunnel between Calais and Folkestone is officially opened.
2004 - Picasso's 'Boy With A Pipe' becomes the world's most expensive painting, selling for £58 million to an anonymous bidder at Sotheby's in New York.
2006 - The last American survivor of the Titanic disaster, Lillian Gertrud, passes away peacefully in her sleep.
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