BITS OF HISTORY

1932: George Eastman, American photographic pioneer who founded the Kodak company, committed suicide.

 

1945: The heaviest bomb of World War Two, the 22,000-pound "Grand Slam", was dropped by the British Dambuster Squadron on the Bielefeld railway viaduct in Germany.

 

1964: Jack Ruby was found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F Kennedy.