On this day - March 27th

FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:

On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how a two-foot iguana was found in a Newport garden.

South Wales Argus: FOUND: This two-foot iguana was found in a Newport garden

Five years ago today we reported how Newport County boss Dean Holdsworth insisted "nothing had changed" in regard to his future at the club, and said he had no plans to go anywhere.

South Wales Argus: AMBITIOUS: County boss Dean Holdsworth

The stories from history on this day - March 27th

1625: Charles I was crowned King of England and Scotland.

1863: Sir Henry Royce, co-founder of the Rolls-Royce Motor Company, was born in Alwalton, near Peterborough, the son of a miller.

1923: Chemist and physicist Sir James Dewar, who invented the vacuum flask, died in London.

1924: Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan was born in New Jersey.

1931: Arnold Bennett, novelist and writer (Clayhanger) died of typhoid after a visit to Paris.

1945: The last of more than 1,000 V2 bombs dropped on Britain landed in Orpington, Kent.

1958: Nikita Khrushchev ousted prime minister Nikolai Bulganin to take power in the USSR.

1966: Football's World Cup trophy was found in a garden in south London by a dog called Pickles after it was stolen from a public exhibition in Westminster Hall a week earlier.

1977: Two jumbo jets collided on the ground at foggy Tenerife airport, killing 574 people.

1980: Mount St Helens in Washington state in the United States became active after being dormant for 123 years.

1980: North Sea accommodation platform Alexander Kielland collapsed, killing 123 oil rig workers.

1989: Bank Holiday Monday was the warmest for 37 years, with the Midlands hotter than the Costa Brava or the Canary Islands.

1991: David Icke, former goalkeeper, BBC sports presenter and then Green Party spokesman, announced that he had been ''chosen'' to save the world.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Labour stalwart Tony Benn was given an emotional send-off as figures as diverse as a former IRA commander, hard-right Tory opponents and a television impressionist gathered in Westminster to pay their respects at his funeral.