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.

■ ■1851: The start of a telegraphic service between London and Paris. ■ ■1941: HMS Ark Royal torpedoed by German U-boat, she sank the next day.

■ ■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 in Paris.

■ ■1969: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC staged a symbolic “March Against Death”.

■ ■1970: A 120mph tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta region of east Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night.

■ ■1990: Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web page on a NeXT workstation.

■ ■1994: Voters in Sweden decided to join the European Union in a referendum.

■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The most distant world ever explored – four billion miles away – was finally given an official name: Arrokoth.

■BIRTHDAYS: George Leonard Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, former Archbishop of Canterbury, 85; Howard

Wilkinson, former football manager,

77; Joe

Mantegna, actor, 73;

Chris Noth, actor, 66;

Whoopi

Goldberg, actress, 65, pictured;

Steve Zahn, actor, 53; Kelly Sotherton, former heptathlete, 44; Dana Vollmer, American former swimmer, 33.