On this day in...

1863 – The Football Association was formed.

1881 – The legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral took place in Tombstone, Arizona.

1929 – It was announced that all London buses would be red – after the yellow variety had proved unpopular in trials.

1929 – TW Evans, of Miami, USA, became the first woman to give birth aboard an aircraft.

2000 – It emerged that officials in California had welcomed a delegation of Filipino businessmen with a banner that was intended to read Welcome Filipinos. Unfortunately a translation problem meant the sign read Circumcise Filipinos.

2001 – Representatives from Lego travelled to New Zealand to defend their use of traditional Maori ideas in the latest Lego range.

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