The armed insurrection began on Easter Monday which, due to Easter being a moveable feast as a result of its relationship to the lunar calendar, in 1916 fell on the 24th April.

On the 29th February 1940, American actress Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Oscar at the Academy Awards.

At 4.29pm on the 21st October 2015, Marty McFly arrived from 1985 in a flying DeLorean car.

Did Gavrilo Princip really chance upon Archduke Franz Ferdinand outside a sandwich shop?