January 30: 25 years ago Princess Diana was presented with a badge of courage

30 January: We look back at the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years and bring you what happened on this day in history

Princess Diana in 1990GETTY

In 1990, Princess Diana was presented with a badge of courage

1915 – Londoners face having to pay two shillings more for house coal with hours in some schools in the capital also being reduced due to the fuel shortage

1940 – Former scholarship student John Barlow, now of the Dominions Office, comes out top in an all-England Civil Service examination for administrators

1965 – Fourteen UK citizens, six of them children, are injured after a hand grenade explodes in the British Army cinema at Aden

1990 – Princess Diana is presented with a wooden badge of courage by three-year-old cancer survivor Katie Yexley at the Royal Marsden Hospital

2005 – A new survey finds that life really does begin at 50 and identifies a new social group of hellraisers, the so-called ‘Pumping Pensioners’

2010 – Tennis star Andy Murray’s ‘secret’ preparations for the Australian Open tournament are said to include huge helpings of raw fish and TV show Gavin and Stacey

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