25 years ago: Pupils at Tong Upper School marched to Bradford City Hall in protest at being sent out of school at lunchtimes.

50 years ago: Accidents in Bingley during the first two months of the year were more than double those of the same period in 1959, a meeting of Bingley Road Safety Committee heard.

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1969: At the Old Bailey, gangland twins Ronald and Reginald Kray were found guilty of murder and given life sentences.

1980: Robert Mugabe became the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.