ON THIS DAY

1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born. 1792: La Marseillaise was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.

1889: Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.

1916: The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland.

1965: The Pennine Way – 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border – opened.

1986: The Duchess of Windsor, the American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

2005: Snuppy becomes the world’s first cloned dog.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Double Olympic winner Dame Kelly Holmes credited the music of Prince for keeping her relaxed as she took on her first London Marathon.