From the T&A...

25 years ago: A group of 25 doctors and nurses at Bradford Royal Infirmary raised £1,000 to buy four colour televisions and a radio for patients in the hospital's Ward Four - by doing a pub crawl taking in a dozen pubs in Bradford.

50 years ago: Barry Watson, of Bingley, set a new world record for the fastest swim across the English Channel. The 25-year-old printer swam from Cap Gris Nez to St Margaret's Bay, near Dover, in nine hours and 35 minutes.

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 1819: Troops broke up a meeting to demand Parliamentary reforms on St Peter's Field, Manchester. Eleven died in what became known as the Peterloo Massacre.

1948: Legendary baseball player George Herman ''Babe'' Ruth died in New York at the age of 53.

1949: Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, died after being knocked down by a car two days earlier.

1962: Pete Best, original drummer with The Beatles, was fired by Brian Epstein and replaced by Ringo Starr.

1977: The king of rock 'n' roll Elvis Presley died in the bathroom of his home in Memphis, Tennessee, though he was actually pronounced dead at 3.30pm in the emergency room of the Baptist Hospital, Memphis.