1971: Post strike ends with pay deal - British postal workers have gone back to work today after seven weeks on strike.

The 200,000 postmen and women voted by 14-1

yesterday in favour of a deal hammered out after more than 13 hours of

talks at the Department of Employment on Friday.

1950: Gas turbine car gets road test - Car manufacturers Rover have unveiled the first car powered with a gas turbine engine.

JET1, a two-seater model powered by the same

kind of engine used in a jet, will have its first public test drive at

the Silverstone racing circuit in Northamptonshire tomorrow.

Born on this Day

1879 Otto Hahn

1921 Cyd Charisse

1943 Lynn Redgrave

1943 Michael Grade

1945 Micky Dolenz

1948 Dr. Jonathan Sacks

1954 David Wilkie

1954 Cheryl Baker

1957 Clive Burr

1958 Gary Numan

1990 Ben Tozer

General Events

1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

1910 The first pilot's licence in Britain was issued.

1911 International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark,

by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic

Party in Germany.

1950 The last of the RAF's Lancaster bombers was retired from service.

1966 IAn IRA bomb destroyed the Nelson column in Dublin.

1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.

1983 A new generation of hovercraft was launched by inventor, Sir

Christopher Cockerell, in the Isle of Wight. The new hovercraft halved

the running costs of the original.

1995 A memorial garden for the 1,490 people lost in the sinking of

The Titanic was to be opened in April at the National Maritime Museum.

1997 Subbeteo announced they were to move production out of the

country. The game was invented in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and the move

would mean the loss of 250 British jobs.