February 14: 25 years ago sales of Perrier mineral water were halted worldwide
14 February: We look back at the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years and bring you what happened on this day in history
1915 – Charles Barton is starting an 18-month prison sentence for bigamy after Hartford Assizes hears how he fraudulently wed a Miss Clarice Rawkins
1940 – Hollywood star Ginger Rogers announces that she’s ‘leaving for Reno’ to obtain a speedy divorce from actor husband Lew Ayres
1965 – Tory MPs are likely to ‘treat with contempt’ an allegation by Labour minister Patrick Duffy that some of them turned up half-drunk for Commons debates
1990 – Sales of Perrier mineral water are halted worldwide as the Ministry of Agriculture confirms traces of cancer-causing poison benzene have been found in it
2005 – BBC1 Controller Lorraine Heggessey, the woman behind the success of Strictly Come Dancing, is jumping ship to work for Talkback Thames which makes the X Factor
2010 – Hundreds of petrol stations could be forced to close in the face of Government tax changes leaving motorists facing longer trips to find fuel