ON THIS DAY

1312: Edward III, King Of England from 1327, was born. 1460: Prince Henry Of Portugal – Henry The Navigator – died aged 66. 1805: Johann Georg Lehner invented the hot dog. 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, was born in Edinburgh. 1947: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, resigned after admitting he had disclosed tax proposals to a reporter minutes before he presented the Budget. 1954: Great Britain won the first Rugby League World Cup, defeating France 16-12. 1970: A 120mph cyclone hit the Ganges Delta region of east Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people. 1990: Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web page on a NeXT workstation. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: French President Francois Hollande joined survivors and victims’ families at the Bataclan to mark one year since the Paris terrorist attacks.