ON THIS DAY ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:
1782:
The 100-ton battleship HMS Royal George sank off Spithead with the loss of more than 900 lives.
1831:
Michael Faraday demonstrated the production of electricity from magnetism with the first transformer.
1842:
The Treaty of Nanking was signed, ending the Opium War (1839-42) between China and Britain, and ceding Hong Kong to Britain.
1882:
England cricketers lost to Australia in England for the first time, and from an epitaph that appeared in the Sporting Times the word “Ashes” came into being.
1885:
The first motorcycle was patented by Gottlieb Daimler in Germany.
1895:
The Rugby League was formed at a meeting in the George Hotel in Huddersfield, with 21 representatives of the leading Lancashire and Yorkshire Rugby Union clubs - the present title of “Rugby League” was adopted in 1922.
1897:
“Chop-suey” (meaning ‘various things’), the most famous Chinese dish, was devised by a New York chef to appeal to Chinese and American tastes.
1930:
The Rev William Spooner, who gave the world spoonerisms, died.
1966:
The Beatles gave their last live concert performance in Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
2005:
Micael Schumacher won his fifth consecutive Formula One Drivers
Championship.
2012:
The London 2012 Paralympic Games started with a spectacular opening ceremony.
Seven people were killed while watching a football match in Morocco when a flash flood swept over the ground.
BIRTHDAYS:
Elliott Gould, actor, 82; Chris Copping, musician, 75; Lenny Henry, actor/comedian, 62; Joe Swail, snooker player, 51; Lea Michele, actress/singer, 34, Liam Payne, singer, 27.
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