22 Sep 1735     Robert Walpole became the first British Prime Minister (actually First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street.
22 Sep 1888     National Geographic magazine was published for the first time.
22 Sep 1896     Queen Victoria surpassed her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
22 Sep 1910     The Duke of York’s Picture House opened in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in the UK.
22 Sep 1955     Britain’s first independent TV station went on the air, ending the BBC’s monopoly.
22 Sep 1994     ‘Friends’ starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer had its TV debut.
22 Sep 2000     Patsy Kensit divorced Liam Gallagher.

23 Sep 1973     Juan Perón returned to power in Argentina.
23 Sep 2000     Rower Steve Redgrave made Olympic history by winning his fifth consecutive gold medal.
23 Sep 2002     The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox was released.
23 Sep 2014     India became the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit with the Mars Orbiter.

24 Sep 1493     Christopher Columbus embarked on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships.
24 Sep 1946     Cathay Pacific Airways was founded in Hong Kong.
24 Sep 1948     The Honda Motor Company is founded.
24 Sep 1957     Elvis Presley released ‘Jailhouse Rock’.
24 Sep 1960     USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.
24 Sep 1975     Dougal Haston and Doug Scott became the first Brits to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
24 Sep 1988     Ben Johnson won the 100m gold at the Seoul Olympics.
25 Sep 1992     NASA launched the Mars Observer.
26 Sep 2018     Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

26 Sep 1580     Francis Drake completed a circumnavigation of the world, sailing into Plymouth aboard the ‘Golden Hind’.
26 Sep 1969     Apple Records released The Beatles 11^th studio album “Abbey Road”, their final recordings as a quartet.
26 Sep 1973     Concorde made its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
26 Sep 1983     Australia II won the America’s Cup yacht race. The 1^st non-US winner.
26 Sep 2008     Paul Newman died.

’27 Sep 1066     William the Conqueror’s troops set sail from Normandy to conquer England.
27 Sep 1825     George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 became the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail line.
27 Sep 1908     Henry Ford’s first Ford Model T automobile rolled off the production line at the Piquette Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
27 Sep 1912     W. C. Handy published ‘Memphis Blues”, considered the first blues song.
27 Sep 1938     The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth was launched in Glasgow.
27 Sep 1968     ‘Oliver!’ starring Mark Lester and Ron Moody had its premiere in London.
27 Sep 1988     Sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his 100m gold medal.
27 Sep 1993     ‘Cracker’ starring Robbie Coltrane had its debut on ITV.
27 Sep 2017     Hugh Hefner died.
27 Sep 2023     Michael Gambon died.

28 Sep 1994     The Estonia ferry sank in the Baltic Sea with the loss of 852 lives.
28 Sep 2008     The Singapore Grand Prix was held as Formula One’s first night race, with Fernando Alonso taking the checkered flag.