1815: Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo.
1973: Marsha Hunt filed an affiliation order alleging Mick Jagger was the father of her two-year-old daughter.
1975: Britain pumped ashore the first North Sea oil.
1997: A graduate sold his soul on the internet for £11.61.
1999: Experts claimed global warming would lead to an increase in diseases such as malaria.
2000: Temperatures reached 91 degrees in London.
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