IT HAPPENED TODAY
1602:
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public.
1674:
The blind English poet John Milton died at the age of 65.
1847:
Dracula creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin.
1895:
Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at the University of Wurzburg with the flow of electricity through a partially evacuated glass tube.
1920:
The first Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in the Daily Express.
1923:
The Munich Beer Hall Putsch marked the start of Hitler’s (top) rise to power in Germany.
1932:
Franklin D Roosevelt — promising a ’New Deal’ for America — swept into the White House on an election landslide.
1960:
John F Kennedy (below) defeated Richard Nixon to become US president.
1966:
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1974:
The famous fruit and vegetable market at Covent Garden in London closed after more than 300 years.
1987:
An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, killing 11 people.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:
Prince Harry attacked the media over its ‘’abuse and harassment’’ of his girlfriend, US actress Meghan Markle (below), warning: ‘’This is not a game — it is her life.’’
Ken Dodd, comedian, (90); Nerys Hughes, actress (76); Roy Wood, rock musician (70); Bonnie Raitt, singer/guitarist (68); Rickie Lee Jones, singer/songwriter (63); Parker Posey, actress (49); Tara Reid, actress (42); Jack Osbourne, TV personality (32).