This Week In History

John LYONS 1855: 19th Regiment (later The Yorkshire Regiment - Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own); Sebastopol, Crimea

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1829: The Oxford team won the first-ever Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.

1891: L Starr Jameson became administrator of the South Africa Company's territories.

1893: Alarmed at Belgian advances in the Congo, France sent an occupying force to forestall further annexations.

1899: US Congress appointed a canal commission to report on routes through Panama.

1942: The Czech village of Lidice was destroyed and every man in it killed in reprisal for the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich.

1943: The ball-point pen was patented in the USA.

1967: The Six-Day War ended. The USSR broke off diplomatic relations with Israel.

1997: The notorious Khmer Rouge leader Son Sen and his family were killed in Cambodia by a supporter of Sen's rival, Pol Pot.

1997: The former Black Panther Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt, convicted for the killing of a white schoolmistress in 1972, was released from prison in the USA due to new evidence.