ON THIS DAY

■■ NATIONAL DAY OF MOROCCO

■■1802: Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was published.

■■1831: George Pullman, US industrialist and inventor who designed the de luxe railway carriages that bear his name, was born.

■■1847: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh.

■■1869: Sir Henry Wood, English conductor, was born in London. In 1895 he founded the Promenade Concerts (Proms) and he conducted them until his death in 1944.

■■1875: Bizet’s Carmen was first performed at the Opera Comique in Paris. Critics called it “painful, blatant, noisy and eminently repulsive” and the composer died brokenhearted three months later.

■■1911: Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter), the platinum blonde actress, was born in Kansas City.

■■1931: The US Congress adopted The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, as the national anthem.

■■1961: Edwin Bush was Britain’s first suspected criminal to be identified by means of an “Identi-kit” picture.

■■1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed near Paris, killing more than 340 people, including members of an English rugby club.

■■1982: The Barbican Arts Centre in London was opened.

■■1985: The Miners’ strike came to an end, almost a year after it had begun.

■■1991: Estonia and Latvia voted for independence from the Soviet Union. ■■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Boots announced plans to limit the sale of hand sanitiser amid concerns its products could be sold for inflated prices online, as concern over coronavirus ramped up.

■■BIRTHDAYS: Miranda Richardson, actress, 63; Fatima Whitbread, former athlete, 60; Jackie Joyner-Kersee, former athlete, 59; Charlie Brooker, screenwriter/broadcaster, 50; Darren Anderton, former footballer, 49; Ronan Keating, pop singer, 44; Alex Zane, television presenter, 42; Jessica Biel, actress/model, 39.

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