In 1955 at least 80 people were killed after a collision at Le Mans 24-hour race in which flaming debris from one of the cars was thrown into a packed grandstand in 1959 the first hovercraft, invented by Christopher Cockerell, was launched in the Solent by the flying boat company Saunders Roe. He was succeeded as president by his second son, Bashar. In 1940 Italy declared war on Britain and France in 1944 soldiers of an SS armoured division massacred more than 600 villagers in Oradour-sur-Glane, in retaliation for the alleged capture of a German officer by the French resistance in 1999 Nato suspended its bombing of Serbia, the day after Belgrade had agreed to a full military withdrawal from Kosovo and 11 weeks after air strikes had begun in 2000 Hafiz al-Assad, the president of Syria since 1971, died of a heart attack, aged 69.
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