From the T&A...

25 years ago: A "space age" waterslide considered the centrepiece of the £3.5 million Keighley Leisure Centre was shut down only three weeks after opening after cracks were found in two sections.

50 years ago: A man needed 37 stitches to his face after being slashed with a razor blade during a fight in Bradford. The brawl, between two Irish men, started in the city's Empress Hotel pub and spilled into Tyrrel Street.

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1227: Genghis Khan, Mongol emperor who conquered more than a million square miles of land, died after falling from his horse.

1587: Virginia Dare became the first child born of English parents in the New World - on Roanoke Island, North Carolina - seven days after Sir Walter Raleigh's second expedition landed.

1948: Lester Piggott, aged 12, rode his first winner on only his seventh ride.

1960: The birth control pill was developed in the US.

1964: South Africa was banned from the Olympics because of its racial policies.