8:42am Thursday 4th September 2008
On this day in...
1886 - The Apache chief Geronimo surrendered to the American army.
1909 - The first Boy Scout rally was held at Crystal Palace. The organisation was originally conceived as a method turning poverty-stricken urban youths into a resourceful Empire-builders.
1957 - In America, black students were barred from an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1964 - The Forth Road Bridge opened.
1970 - Salvador Allende became President of Chile - and the world's first elected Marxist leader.
1972 - America Swimmer Mark Spitz won his seventh Olympic gold medal at the Munich Games, aged 22.
1991 - The Big Issue launched.
2000 - After 19 years, the final woman protesters left Greenham Common.
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