Clock of ages: A history of the world in an incredible 24 hours

A new book tells the story of the history of the world in a 24 hours. Here are some of the best and worst times

They are pivotal moments in history that happened in the blink of an eye.
But put side-by-side, the events make for an incredible 24 hours.

A new book, Chronologia: 24 Hours of History, charts these incredible moments – from the minute the first child was born in the new NHS to the minute the first human footsteps landed on the moon – showing how the future can be changed irrevocably by one individual moment.
Midnight: Guy Fawkes discovered with 36 barrels of gunpowder planning to blow up Parliament in 1605
12.01am: Aneira Thomas is the first baby born under Britain’s new National Health Service in 1948
12.10am: East Sussex police are called to Brian Jones’ house after the Rolling Stone is found at the bottom of a swimming pool in 1969
1am: Fire breaks out in Pudding Lane causing the Great Fire of London in 1666
1.24am: The Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine suffers a catastrophic explosion in 1986.
1.30am: Actor Hugh Grant and prostitute Divine Brown are arrested by Los Angeles police.
2.30am: The Berlin Wall goes up in August 1961 as tensions between the once-allied forces grow.
2.30am: Five burglars are arrested at the Watergate office and hotel complex in Washington DC in June 1972 leading to the resignation of President Richard Nixon

2.54am: Brighton bomb

2.54am: An IRA bomb explodes in Brighton’s Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party’s annual conference in October 1984
3.14am: Reality-TV star Jade Goody dies of cervical cancer in March 2009
3.15am: A mail train en route to London from Glasgow is ambushed. The robbers of the Great Train Robbery, including Ronnie Biggs, get away with £2.6 million in August 1963
3.45am: Mary Ann Nicholls, the first victim of Jack the Ripper, is found in Whitechapel, London with her throat slashed in August 1888
4.15am: Four US soldiers land on two small islands off Normandy in  June 1944 marking the start of the D-Day landings.
4.25am: Marilyn Monroe’s doctors telephone Los Angeles Police to report her death in 1962
4.30am: Palestinian terrorists break into Olympic Village in Munich and take members of the Israeli team hostage, with several hostages killed in 1972.
5.00am: The American War of Independence begins after British troops reach Lexington, Massachusetts, in April 1775.
5.10am: The armistice ending the First World War is signed in November 1918.
5.30am: The volcano Krakatoa in Indonesia explodes eventually leading to the death of 40,000 in August 1883.
5.52am: The world’s first successful human heart transplant operation ends in December 1967, although the recipient Louis Washkansky, 55, dies of pneumonia 18 days later.
6.00am: British navigator Captain Cook spots Terra Australis Incognita – Australia – for the first time in April 1770.
6.00am: Westminster Abbey opens for its first guests on Elizabeth II’s Coronation in June 1953.
6.07am: Myra Hindley’s brother-in-law David Smith phones Manchester Police after witnessing Ian Brady murder Edward Evans, 17, in October 1965.
6.10am: Serial killer Harold Shipman is found hanged in his cell in Wakefield Prison in January 2004 after being convicted of 15 murders – but believed to be responsible for up to 215.
6.10am: Hurricane Katrina hits Louisiana in US with winds of up to 125mph in August 2005, leaving to 1,800 deaths.
6.40am: the first execution using the brand new electric chair begins in August 1890.
7.00am: The Empire Windrush docks in London carrying around 5,000 people from the Caribbean in June 1948.
7.30am: Whistles ordering troops ‘over the top’ marks the start of the Battle of the Somme in July 1916, during which one million troops die.
7.59am: An earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggers a tsunami killing nearly 250,000 in December 2004.
8.00am: Joan of Arc is burned at the stake for heresy in May 1431
8.00am: Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged, the two last convicts to be executed in Britain in August 1964.
8.10am: Pearl Harbour in Hawaii is bombed by the Japanese in December 1941. 

8.46am: 9/11 attack

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8.46am: American Airlines Flight 11 flies into the World Trade Centre’s North Tower in September 2001
8.50 am: Bombs are on three London Underground trains and another on a bus in July 2005
9.00am: Runners move off in London’s first marathon in March 1981
9.00am: Harry Patch, Britain’s last surviving soldier of the First World War, dies in July 2009
9.15am: A landslide falls in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan killing 144 – mostly schoolchildren – in October 1966
9.45am: OJ Simpson is acquitted for the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron in October 1995.
10.00am: Edward VIII abdicates the throne over his love affair with American divorcee Wallis Simpson in December 1936.
10.00am: Britain’s first civil partnership ceremony between Shannon Sickles and Grainne Close takes place in Belfast’s City Hall in December 2005
10.06am: Jean Charles de Menezes is shot by police in a case of mistaken identity in July 2005
10.40am: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot causing the outbreak of First World War in June 1914
11.00am: Britain’s first motorway opens, an eight mile stretch of the Preston bypass in December 1958.
11.00am: Australian naturalist Steve Irwin is fatally stung by a stingray in September 2006.

11.20am: Lady Di marries Charles

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11.20am: Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are married at St Paul’s Cathedral in July 1981
11.20am: Prince William and Kate marry at Westminster Cathedral in April 2011.
11.21am: Brit Robert Fagg shakes hands with Frenchman Philippe Cozette after digging what would become Channel Tunnel
11.30am: Mohammed Bouazizi sets himself on fire in Tunisia, sparking the Arab Spring, in December 2010
12.30pm: The first transatlantic wireless message is received paving the way for radio in December 1901.
12.30pm: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963
1.00pm: Mount Vesuvius erupts killing most of the population of Pompeii in 79AD. 
1.15pm: Admiral Horatio Nelson is fatally shot by a single musket round on HMS Victory in October 1805.
2.00pm: King Charles I is beheaded following the Civil War, in January 1649. 
2.22pm: Beams cross in the Large Hadron Collider in November 2009 by scientists exploring the origins of the universe.
2.46pm: A tremor occurs off the coast of Japan triggering a devastating earthquake that kills more than 19,000, in March 2011.
2.47pm: A gate opens allowing more Liverpool fans into the Hillsborough ground for the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest, leading to the deaths of 96 fans in the ensuing crush in April 1989.
3.00pm: Jesus of Nazareth dies after being crucified in April 33AD.
3.00pm: Trading ends on the New York Stock Exchange on Black Thursday in October 1929, triggering the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression.
3.09pm: A 500lb bomb planted by the Real IRA explodes in Omagh, Northern Ireland in August 1998 killing 29.
3.10pm: Suffragette Emily Davison is struck by the king’s horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby in June 1913 and dies four days later.
3.40pm: The Concorde makes its inaugural flight in March 1969.
4.00pm: Dolly the sheep, a clone, is born in July 1996.
4.14pm: Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years in February 1990.
4.55pm: Blue Peter goes on air for the first time in July 1969.
5.00pm: Fascist Oswald Mosley is due to speak at an East London rally but is delayed by protesters in October 1936.
5.00pm: Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated in April 1945.
5.15pm: The final whistle blows at Wembley Stadium with England winning the World Cup in July 1966.
5.30pm: ‘Canoe man’ John Darwin walks into a London police station claiming to be a missing person with amnesia in December 2007.

6.03pm: Roger Bannister breaks the four-minute mile mark

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 6.03pm: Roger Bannister runs the first mile in under four minutes in May 1954.
6.03pm: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King is fatally shot in April 1968.
6.30pm: Queen Victoria dies in January 1901.
7.00pm: The first episode of Coronation Street is broadcast in December 1960.
7.25pm: The Hindenburg airship bursts into flames, killing 36, in May 1937.
7.35pm: Barack Obama, is sworn in as America’s first black president n January 2009.
8.17pm: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, land on the Moon in 1969. 
8.30pm: Comedian Tommy Cooper has a fatal heart attack on live television in April 1984
8.36pm: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is captured by US troops in December 2003.
9.45pm: Lady Lucan, covered in blood, bursts into a pub claiming her husband – Lord Lucan – has killed the nanny in 1974.
10.20pm: Adolf Hitler’s death is announced on German radio in May 1945. 
10.30pm: A gate is ordered open in the Berlin Wall, paving the way for its collapse in November 1989.
10.50pm: John Lennon is shot dead by Mark Chapman outside his apartment in New York in December 1980.
11.40pm: RMS Titanic hits an iceberg and sinks, causing the deaths of 1,502 passengers and staff in April 1912.
11.47pm: Louise Joy Brown, the first ever test tube baby, is born in July 1978.