February 1st

1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.

1968 - Daughter of Elvis and Priscilla, and first wife of Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley is born.

1999 - Tony Blair reveals he had been in a rock band at school called The Ugly Rumours.

2000 - Badly Drawn Boy buys back his own hat in a charity auction after it was stolen.

2001 - Walkers are warned to avoid the white cliffs of Dover after part of the chalk face collapsed into the sea.

2002 - A US scientist claims to have found the world's oldest living creature - an 11,700-year-old creosote bush in Palm Springs, California. It has survived fierce winds, baking heat and sandstorms by continually cloning itself.