On this day in...
1898 - The British Government negotiated a 99-year lease on Hong Kong from China.
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis took out a five page advert explaining his recent divorce. He also remarried his third wife.
1975 - Proceedings from the House of Commons were broadcast live by radio for the first time.
1996 - Euro 96 officials included bagpipes on a list of offensive weapons to be banned from matches.
2000 - It was reported that a judge in Southampton had to halt an indecent assault trial because two of the jurors had fallen asleep.
2003 - Chancellor Gordon Brown gave his verdict on Britain joining the single European currency - saying not yet - but not never'.
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