On this day in...
1066 - The Battle of Hastings was fought on Senlac Hill, where King Harold was slain as William the Conqueror’s troops routed the English army.
1878 - The first experimental floodlit football match took place at Bramall Lane in Sheffield.
1920 - Oxford University degrees were awarded to women for the first time.
1926 - A A Milne’s Winnie the Pooh was published.
1969 - The new seven sided 50p coin came into circulation.
1982 - A mass wedding took place in Seoul, South Korea, when 5,837 couples were married simultaneously.
1994 - The Nobel Peace Prize was shared by Yitzak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat.
2003 - Mohammed Dica became the first person in 137 years to be convicted of transmitting a sexual disease in England and Wales. He had knowingly infected at least two women with HIV.
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