The only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, becomes the first woman prime minister of India.
1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet A super tug is sent to protect British trawlers from Icelandic patrol boats as the dispute over cod fishing rights intensifies.
1990: Rebel cricketers face storm of protest Police in Johannesburg armed with batons and dogs break up a demonstration against the rebel cricketers who are defying a ban on playing in segregated South Africa.
2001: 'Internet twins' taken into care The American twin girls at the centre of an internet adoption scandal are seized from a hotel in north Wales and taken into care.
1988: Disabled author wins Whitbread Writer Christopher Nolan, who cannot move or speak because of an accident at birth, wins the Whitbread Book of the Year prize.
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