IT HAPPENED TODAY
1458:
Magdalen College, Oxford, was founded.
1819:
Charles Kingsley, English clergyman who wrote The Water Babies, was born in Holne, Devon.
1839:
Abner Doubleday was credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
1842:
Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School, died the day before his 47th birthday. During his headship, the game of rugby was created by accident when a handball rule was broken during a football match.
1922:
Insulin, the treatment for diabetes, was patented by Frederick Banting.
1931:
Al Capone (above) is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury.
1942:
Anne Frank (above) a Jewish teenager who went into hiding with her family during the during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, got her diary as a birthday present when she was 13 years old and started to record her feelings and observations.
1965:
The Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
1987:
Princess Anne was made Princess Royal, the title awarded to the monarch’s eldest daughter.
1989:
MPs voted 293 to 69 to allow television cameras into the House of Commons.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:
Mobile roaming charges across the EU finally came to an end amid warnings to consumers to check their tariffs and remain aware of unexpected costs.
BIRTHDAYS:
Chick Corea, jazz pianist, 77; Pat Jennings (above), former NI goalkeeper, 73; Bobby Gould, football manager, 72; Mark Calcavecchia, golfer, 58; Cathy Tyson, actress, 53; Adriana Lima, supermodel, 37.