Van Gogh's Sunflowers sold for £24m at Christie's Auction House.

Fifty billion pounds was wiped off shares in the London Stock Market after panic on Wall Street in New York.

Pat Cash beat Ivan Lendl in the Wimbledon men's singles final.

Fourteen people were killed by gunman Michael Ryan in the Hungerford Massacre.

Film star and tap dancer Fred Astaire died.

Two hundred passengers were killed when the Zeebrugge cross-channel car ferry sank.