On this day in history...

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1966 - England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.

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1998 - The British Government announces a total ban on landmines, a month before the first anniversary of the death of Princess Diana.

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1944 - The Polish Underground Army begins battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European city to fall to the Germans.

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1966 - England win football's World Cup for the first time since the tournament began in 1930.

Yep and we are still hearing about it..

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1990 - More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invade the gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning.

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1990 - A weather station in Leicestershire records the highest temperature ever known in Britain.

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2000 - Celebrations take place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

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1975 - Dutch elm disease, which has so far attacked more than three million trees in Britain, is spreading, according to Forestry commission officials.

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1971 - A British man becomes the first to sail the world non-stop in the "wrong" direction - east to west - against the prevailing winds and currents.

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2001 - The government re-nationalises a private hospital for the first time.