Also on this day

1099: The siege of Jerusalem begins in the First Crusade.

1868: Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, right, is born.

1946: BBC broadcasts on TV again after a seven-year gap during the Second World War.

became the hub of operations. It was a strange set up. Other members of his entourage were regular guests. His father Vernon had a swimming pool in his room, and Elvis would spend hours upon hours in his bedroom, staring at the property on CCTV.

The style was flamboyant – Elvis spent half a million dollars on refurbishment, including a “jungle room” and a kidney-shaped swimming pool. He once commented that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev might like to visit “to see how in America a fellow can start out with nothing and, you know, make good”.

It was in a Graceland bathroom that Elvis died in 1977 – officially from a heart attack, but a heart attack exacerbated by his drug use. He is buried in the the Meditation Garden in the grounds of the estate. Daughter Llsa Marie inherited the home and, five years after his death, opened the doors to the public.

With 650,000 guests a year it is now the second most visited house in the United States, beaten only by the White House.

QUESTION: Which French painter, whose later work was inspired by his 10 years in French Polynesia, was born on this day in 1848?

Last week I asked which Oscar-winning actor/ director was born in San Francisco on May 31, 1930. The answer is CLINT EASTWOOD.