ON THIS DAY

■1718: William Penn, founder of The Quakers, died in Pennsylvania.

■1818: Novelist Emily Bronte was born. One of the three famous sisters, she wrote her single masterpiece Wuthering Heights under the name of Ellis Bell in 1846. ■1863: Henry Ford, father of the mass-produced car, was born in Dearborn, Michigan. He built his first car in his spare time in a shed behind his house in Detroit.

■1900: London Underground’s Central Line was opened by the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) with a flat rate of tuppence for all destinations.

■1930: Uruguay won football’s first World Cup.

■1935: Ariel, a life of Shelley by Andre Maurois, was the first Penguin paperback book to be published, price sixpence.

■1963: Third Man Kim Philby turned up in Moscow after escaping arrest in Britain for spying.

■1966: England beat West Germany 4-2 in extra time - with a hat-trick from Geoff Hurst - to win the World Cup.

■1973: The Thalidomide Case, taken up by the Sunday Times on behalf of the victims, ended after 11 years, with compensation of £20m.

■1990: Ian Gow, Conservative MP for Eastbourne, was murdered by an IRA bomb at his home in the Sussex village of Hankham.

■2011: The Queen’s granddaughter Zara Phillips married England rugby star Mike Tindall in a simple private ceremony.

■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Lil Nas X’s viral Old Town Road had broken the Billboard record set by Mariah Carey’s One Sweet Day for most weeks at number one.

■ BIRTHDAYS: Buddy Guy, blues guitarist, 84; Peter Bogdanovich, film director, 81; Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor, 80; Paul Anka, singer, 79; Frances de la Tour, actress, 76; Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and former governor of California, 73; Jean Reno, actor, 72; Harriet Harman, MP, 70; Kate Bush, singer, 62; Daley Thompson, former athlete, 62; Laurence Fishburne, actor, 59; Lisa Kudrow, actress, 57; Sean Moore, rock drummer (Manic Street Preachers), 52; Jason Robinson, former rugby player, 46.