David Dickson

Great Memories! Who Remembers The BBC World Service/Radio 2 Sport On 2. Here the late great Peter Jones, commentates on the final dramatic minutes of the 1979 FA Cup Final between Arsenal and Manchester United, which brought 3 goals in an amazing finale. #FACup #Arsenal #MUFC

10 April 2015. Richie Benaud died (aged 84). After retiring from playing cricket for Australia in 1964, he became a leading TV cricket commentator, working for the BBC and Channel 4. In Australia, he commentated for the 9 Network.

10 April 1890, the Carnarvon Boroughs by-election sees David Lloyd George returned to Parliament for the first time. For a time it looked like he might lose, but then a bundle of Liberal votes was found to have been counted as Conservative. #OTD #OnThisDay

34 years ago this morning, the country woke up to another Conservative victory - with John Major winning more votes than any PM in history. Neil Kinnock conceded defeat but warned the country about what he thought would now happen in the 1990s.

#OTD 1992. General Election. Exit poll predicts Hung Parliament with vote "too close to call".

Of the 651 MPs returned at the general election on this day in 1992, 12 are still in the House of Commons - 8 Conservatives and 4 then elected as Labour (2 of whom sit as independents)

The general election on this day in 1992 holds the UK record for most votes cast at a general election of 33.61 million, and the most votes cast for a political party, with just over 14 million for the Conservatives

The 1992 general election took place on this day - result: - Conservatives 336 (41.9%) - Labour 271 (34.4%) - Liberal Democrats 20 (17.8%) - UUP 9 - SDLP 4 - Plaid Cymru 4 - SNP 3 - DUP 3 - UPUP 1

James Callaghan takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

60 years ago tonight, the polls close and Wilson looks to have secured a big majority The BBC ask if he has betrayed his socialist principles on the economy and Vietnam… “These are comments from people who haven’t got much to do - except to write an article once a week”

On 29th March 1994 Allan Border started his last ever innings for Australia. He played 156 Tests scoring 11,174 runs at 50.56 as well as 273 ODI’s notching 6,524 runs at 30.62. In all 1st class matches he scored 27,131 runs at 51.38. He was an Australian great. #cricketcounts

@FXMC1957 Recommended read!

30 March 2004. Alistair Cooke died (aged 95). He was best known on radio as the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Letter From America which began in 1946, and ran until a few weeks before his death. In the USA he was best known as the presenter of PBS Masterpiece Theatre.

One of the most controversial “handled the ball” dismissals in Test history. #OnThisDay in 1979, Andrew Hilditch was given out in Perth after returning the ball to Sarfraz Nawaz, who appealed. Though Australia still won, the incident sparked backlash and was seen as revenge for Sikander Bakht’s earlier run-out by Alan Hurst.

1950s - Gordon Brown (1951), Tony Blair (1953), Theresa May (1956) 1960s - Keir Starmer (1962), Boris Johnson (1964), David Cameron (1966) 1970s - Liz Truss (1975) 1980s - Rishi Sunak (1980).

Births of UK PMs by calendar decade since 1900: 1900s - Sir Alec Douglas-Home (1903) 1910s - James Callaghan (1912), Harold Wilson (1916), Edward Heath (1916) 1920s - Margaret Thatcher (1925) 1940s - John Major (1943)

John Major is the only UK PM born in the 1940s. Of the 1st 9 decades of the C20 the only one without having a UK PM born it is the 1930s (Michael Heseltine & Roy Hattersley - both born in 1933 - are near-misses).

How the Northern Echo reported on Jim Callaghan's triumph in the race the replace Harold Wilson. His success in 1976 marked the end of what was probably - in fact, almost certainly - the most talented Labour leadership election ever.

Erapalli Srinivasa Prasanna - truly a legendary cricketer.

28 March 1942. Neil Kinnock was born in Tredegar, Wales. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992 and the longest serving Opposition Leader. He led the Labour Party to 2 successive election defeats in 1987 and 1992 and then resigned.

28 March 1979. Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan lost a parliamentary vote of confidence in the House of Commons by 1 vote, thus forcing a general election which led to a huge victory for the Conservative Party led by Mrs Margaret Thatcher.