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Jude Bellingham scored twice, including the extra-time winner, to turn round Andreas Schjelderup's opener and send England into the semi-finals.

Around 2500 BCE, Neolithic Britons hauled 25-ton sarsen stones about 15 miles (25 km) to Salisbury Plain and raised them into the trilithons and circle known as Stonehenge.

John Murray issues the first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection from 50 Albemarle Street in London. The print run of 1,250 copies is taken up by the trade on the day of publication.

Arthur Eddington presents the results of the May 1919 eclipse expeditions to Principe and Sobral at a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House. The measured deflection of starlight matches Einstein's prediction, and the meeting accepts it.

Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" to the London Mathematical Society. It defines the abstract machine that became the model for every computer built since, and proves the Entscheidungsproblem undecidable.

Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.

British United Airways flew the BAC One-Eleven's first revenue service from Gatwick to Genoa on 9 April 1965, putting the British short-haul jet into airline use eight months before the Douglas DC-9.

Concorde 002, G-BSST, took off from Filton near Bristol on 9 April 1969 with Brian Trubshaw at the controls and landed at RAF Fairford, five weeks after French prototype 001 first flew.

On 23 May 1974 Air France began scheduled A300 operations, premiering the first twin-engine wide-body airliner on its Paris to London Heathrow trunk route with two round trips.

Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.

In 1976 Whitbread secured a licence to brew the Belgian pilsner Stella Artois under contract in the UK, the start of a British-brewed Stella whose UK strength was 4.8% from 2008 until it was cut to 4.6% in 2020.

British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.

On 16 August 1989 Qantas' first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA City of Canberra, flew non-stop from London Heathrow to Sydney in 20 hours 9 minutes, setting FAI distance and speed records. It landed with under 900 kg of fuel to spare.

The Boeing 777 entered commercial service on 7 June 1995 when United Airlines flew its first Pratt & Whitney-powered 777-200 between London Heathrow and Washington.

Core Design's Tomb Raider, the first game in the series and Lara Croft's debut, was first released on the Sega Saturn in Europe on 24 October 1996, with MS-DOS and PlayStation versions following in November. Eidos Interactive published it.

British Airways introduced the extended-range Boeing 777-200ER into airline service on 9 February 1997, three days after taking the first delivery, making it the launch operator of the 777's long-haul B-market variant.

Mars launched Celebrations, a box of miniature versions of its countline brands, in Britain in the week before 25 September 1997, aiming for every adult to have seen the logo by Christmas.

Core Design's Tomb Raider II, starring Lara Croft in a hunt for the Dagger of Xian, was released on Windows and PlayStation on 21 November 1997 by Eidos Interactive.

Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft was released in Europe on 20 November 1998 (North America on 24 November) on Windows and PlayStation, published by Eidos Interactive.

Cadbury introduced its Miniature Heroes tub of mini Dairy Milk, Wispa, Twirl, Crunchie and other bars in Britain in September 1999; no launch price is published.

Core Design's fourth Tomb Raider, The Last Revelation, was released on PlayStation and Windows in North America on 24 November 1999 (Europe 3 December), published by Eidos Interactive.

Tomb Raider: Chronicles, the fifth Tomb Raider game and the last developed by Core Design for the PlayStation era, was released in Europe on PlayStation on 17 November 2000 (Windows 24 November; North America 26 November).

Virgin Atlantic's A340-600, the longest airliner in the world at 75.3 m, flew its first commercial service from Heathrow to New York JFK on 1 August 2002. It was the first of ten, a US$1.9 billion order.

Core Design's Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, the first Tomb Raider on PlayStation 2, was released in North America on 20 June 2003 (Windows 1 July), published by Eidos Interactive.