02 May	1952: Comet inaugurates the jet age
20 Jul	1952: Zatopek wins gold at Helsinki
15 Apr	1953: Britain honours American hero
25 Apr	1953: Scientists describe 'secret of life'
29 May	1953: Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest
06 May	1954: Bannister breaks four-minute mile
13 Oct	1954: Chataway beats 5,000m world record
22 Feb	1955: American tennis star 'Little Mo' to quit
03 Nov	1957: Russians launch dog into space
04 Jan	1958: Explorer Hillary arrives at South Pole
20 Jan	1958: Explorers meet at South Pole
26 Jun	1959: Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
20 Jul	1960: Ceylon chooses world's first woman PM
31 Jan	1961: Chimp returns safely after space flight
05 May	1961: Shepard becomes first US astronaut
06 Aug	1961: Russian cosmonaut spends day in space
16 Jun	1963: Soviets launch first woman into space
25 Feb	1964: Cassius Clay crowned world champion
04 Sep	1964: Forth Road Bridge opened
31 Dec	1964: Campbell speeds to double record
30 Jul	1966: Football glory for England
04 Jan	1967: Campbell killed during record attempt
28 May	1967: Sir Francis Chichester sails home
05 May	1967: First all-British satellite 'Ariel 3' launched
29 May	1968: Manchester Utd win European Cup
04 Jul	1968: Alec Rose sails home
22 May	1969: Apollo 10 gets bird's eye view of Moon
21 Jul	1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
06 Aug	1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage
26 Sep	1973: Concorde slashes Atlantic flight time
25 Aug	1974: Human cannonball misses target
05 Jul	1975: Ashe's Wimbledon win makes history
24 Sep	1975: First Britons conquer Everest
27 Jul	1978: Transatlantic balloonists in trouble
17 Aug	1978: US balloonists' record Atlantic crossing
10 Dec	1979: Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump
11 Oct	1982: Mary Rose rises after 437 years
26 Aug	1985: Budd smashes 5,000m record
15 Aug	1985: Virgin voyage ends in disaster
04 Jul	1985: Teenage genius gets a first
07 Jul	1985: Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at 17
07 Aug	1987: Chilly swim thaws Cold War relations
29 Aug	1986: UK's oldest twins turn 100
31 Dec	1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured
06 May	1988: Hick makes cricketing history
01 Aug	1989: Britain's oldest person turns 112
10 Aug	1990: Magellan starts mapping Venus
18 May	1991: Sharman becomes first Briton in space
09 Dec	1993: Astronauts put Hubble back in action
06 May	1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
13 Apr	1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters at 21
07 Nov	1998: Oldest astronaut back on Earth
04 Jan	2000: First British women reach South Pole
17 May	2000: First Britons reach North Pole unaided
08 Jul	2000: New Harry Potter most magical yet
23 Sep	2000: Redgrave wins fifth Olympic gold
08 Mar	2001: Donald Campbell's speedboat recovered
28 Apr	2001: First space tourist blasts off
19 Oct	2003: David Blaine ends glass box stunt
22 Nov	2003: England win Rugby World Cup
25 Jan	2004: Nasa rover looks for water on Mars
01 Jul	2004: Cassini captures Saturn's rings
28 Aug	2004: Second gold for Kelly Holmes
03 Mar	2005: Fossett sets solo flight record