Also on this day

1852: Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children opens with just 10 beds.

1984: Torvill and Dean, right, win Gold for their performance to Ravel’s Boléro at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics.

2005: Youtube founded by three former Paypal employees in California.

from tommy guns. The victims were gang members Adam Heyer, Frank Gusenberg, Pete Gusenberg, John May, Al Weinshank, James Clark and a visitor, Dr Reinhardt H Schwimmer.

When police officers from Chicago’s 36th District arrived they found Frank Gusenberg barely alive. Yet in the few minutes before he died he still refused to talk.

Although Al Capone was said to have ordered the hit, he claimed he had been at his home in Florida at the time and the massacre was never officially linked to him.

Nobody has stood trial and the crime’s notoriety has continued to fascinate the public.

Most famously, director Billy Wilder used it in his 1959 hit Some Like It Hot, when Chicago musicians Joe and Jerry played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon witnessed it.

Moran managed to keep control of his territory but with his power diminished he left the city in the late 1930s and continued a life of petty crime.

He died in prison aged 63 on February 25, 1957. Al Capone was eventually jailed for tax evasion in 1931 and jailed for 11 years. He died aged 48 on January 25, 1947.

Question: Which explorer died on this day in 1779 after being attacked in Hawaii?

Last week I asked: Which author had a pet raven called Grip? CHARLES DICKENS