ON JANUARY 11…

IN 1569, the draw for England’s first official lottery was held at St Paul’s Cathedral. It took three years to sell all the 10-shilling (50p) tickets and the jackpot was £5,000 (around £900,000 today).

IN 2008, Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Sherpa Tenzing norgay was the first to climb Everest in 1953, died aged 88.