1788: The first consignment of convicts from England arrived in Australia, at Sydney Cove.

1828: The Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister.

South Wales Argus: FAMOUS DESCENDANT: Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington

1841: Hong Kong was proclaimed British sovereign territory.

1871: The Rugby Football Union was founded.

1885: General Charles Gordon, British commander and Governor of the Sudan, was killed by a spear while besieged at Khartoum.

1905: The world's largest diamond was found at the Premier Mines in Pretoria, South Africa. The Cullinan Diamond weighed more than 1.25lb.

1907: ''Foul language'' caused a riot in the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on the first night of JM Synge's The Playboy Of The Western World.

1947: Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden was killed in an air crash near Copenhagen.

1965: Hindi was made the official language of India.

1972: The musical Godspell had its first London performance.

1993: Vaclav Havel became the first president of the new Czech Republic.

2010: James Cameron's Avatar became the top-grossing film of all time, beating his 1997 movie Titanic.

2013: Apple discovered multiple cases of child labour in its supply chain, including one Chinese company that employed 74 children under the age of 16.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The first Canterbury Cathedral all-girls' choir gave their first public performance after more than 1,000 years of male-dominated singing.

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