There is one final twist to what started out as a simple story. Some of you will have noticed that I gave the date of Szilard's eureka moment at that traffic light on Southampton Row as October 1933. You may have had a date in September in your mind. The truth is, Szilard tells the story twice, as I mentioned. In one version he records reading the Times report and immediately having the idea of a chain reaction (on 12 September). In the other he recalls fretting over the problem for weeks in his hotel room and pacing the streets of London deep in thought, until the idea eventually came to him (in early October).

But the news wasn't all bad for Apple's iPhone 5, as the phone was the quickest to charge to full battery life, at just 141 minutes.

A selection of over 60 exclusive ballgowns worn by the likes of Sandra Bullock, Daphne Guinness and Elizabeth Hurley will be on display at the much anticipated "Ballgowns" exhibition in Victoria & Albert Museum.

1956 - Japan joins United Nations.

Organised trading, political squabbles are expected in such a setting. Will a new Trade Federation rise again? If so, who will hold the strings this time?