ON THIS day

■■1861: London’s first tram cars, drawn by horses, began operating from Bayswater, designed by a Mr Train from New York.

■■1919: In Italy, fascism became an organised political movement following the founding of Fasci di Combattimento by Benito Mussolini a month earlier.

■■1921: Donald Campbell, who emulated his father, Sir Malcolm, by breaking land and water-speed records, was born in Horley, Surrey. ■■1966: The first official meeting for 400 years between the Catholic and the Anglican churches took place in Rome between Pope Paul VI and Dr Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

■■1971: Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, proclaimed its independence.

■■1981: Englishman Mike Hailwood, nine times world motor cycling champion, died two days after a car crash in which his nine-year-old daughter was also killed.

■■1981: All animal transportation on the Isle of Wight and in southern Hampshire was banned in a successful attempt to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. ■■1989: A 1,000ft diameter asteroid missed the Earth by a mere 400,000 miles.

■■1991: In a speech to Conservatives at Southport, John Major outlined plans for his Citizen’s Charter.

■■2001: The Mir space station was disposed of. It broke up in the atmosphere before falling into the Pacific near Fiji.

■■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Joe Wicks’ attempt to keep the nation’s children fit during the coronavirus crisis got off to a flying start, with his first workout racking up hundreds of thousands of hits on YouTube.

■■BIRTHDAYS: Barry Cryer, writer/ comedian, 86; Michael Nyman, composer, 77; Alan Bleasdale, playwright, 75; Chaka Khan, singer, 68; Amanda Plummer, actress, 64; Sir Steve Redgrave, retired Olympic rower, 59; Marti Pellow, singer, 56; Damon Albarn, singer, 53; Mike Atherton, former cricketer, 53; Gail Porter, TV presenter, 50; Joe Calzaghe, former boxer, 49; Sir Chris Hoy, Olympic champion track cyclist, 45; Princess Eugenie of York, 31.

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