This day in history

The Nobel Peace Prize is jointly awarded to the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat.

In Britain, Cecil Parkinson, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, resigns following further revelations about his affair with his former secretary Sara Keays.

77 people, mainly students, are killed in Bangkok, Thailand, as government troops open fire on anti-government protesters. 

Ahead of the complete changeover to decimalisation, Britain scraps the 10 shilling note and introduces the 50 pence coin.

Civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Whilst on holiday, Nikita Khrushchev is ousted from power in the Soviet Union as Leonid Brezhnev assumes control.

Cuban Missile Crisis: An American U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba provides evidence that there are Soviet missiles on the island.

The Battle of Hastings takes place on the southern coast of England. An English army, commanded by King Harold, is defeated by the invasion force of William of Normandy. King Harold is killed and William ‘The Conqueror’ is proclaimed King of England.