12th February

1554 - Lady Jane Grey is executed on Tower Green for high treason. She had been Queen of England for nine days.

1947 - Blizzards bring Britain to a standstill.

1954 - A report establishing a link between smoking and cancer is published.

1994 - More than 1,000 people trek the 31-mile subterranean Channel Tunnel in a sponsored walk for charity. They are the first people to walk from Britain to France since the Ice Age.

2001 - A picture of Britney Spears' belly button on the Encyclopaedia Britannica website causes internet meltdown when 17 million people try to log on.

2006 - Leo Sayer regains the number one slot after a gap of 29 years. A dance remix of his 1977 flop Thunder in My Heart' reinvents Sayer as a club favourite.