05-06-2009, 05:24 PM
1937: The Hindenburg airship, the largest ever built, explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people.
1954: British athlete Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, in Oxford.
1992: The Channel Tunnel - an immense engineering achievement - opens, linking London and Paris by rail.
1954: British athlete Roger Bannister becomes the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, in Oxford.
1992: The Channel Tunnel - an immense engineering achievement - opens, linking London and Paris by rail.