#OnThisDay 1979: BBC News explained the mysterious markings that had started appearing on supermarket products.

#OnThisDay 1975: "We've been together now, car and I, for over half a century... most of it was fun." Fyfe Robertson proposed that as cars improved, driving conditions got worse.

#OnThisDay 1965: The British public were not impressed at the idea of having to memorise telephone numbers.

#OnThisDay 1950: George Bernard Shaw - "that regular achiever of birthdays" - reached his 94th, to the dismay of his overburdened postman.

#OnThisDay 1977: When the way to Watlington was windy, it was well worth waiting to watch Jack Wild's wonderful windmills working.

#OnThisDay 1976: John Hornsby made the 22-mile commute to work in a canoe. Was he London's first ever 'canoe-ter'?

#OnThisDay 1972: Wilf Lunn protested against artificial foods, in time-honoured fashion - by riding his homemade protest bike to Woburn Abbey, to feed a fake parrot to a lion cub.

1987: Daniel the dummy and his lovely wife Danielle demonstrated why you should stay in the car at Longleat Safari Park.

#OnThisDay 1983: Peter Davison was leaving Doctor Who, but would his replacement be a crotchety old man... or a lady? He and producer John Nathan-Turner discussed the possibilities.

Kate Bush was born #OnThisDay  in 1958. She talked to Delia Smith in 1980 about becoming a vegetarian, initially living "off chocolate and tea" and some of her favourite veggie recipes. #KateBush  #Vegetarian  #vegetarianrecipes  #veggie