ON THIS DAY
65 BC: Horace, Roman poet, was born in Venusian Apulia.
1542: Mary, Queen of Scots, was born at Linlithgow Palace.
1733: A Dorset man reported seeing a polished silver disc in the sky – the first known sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO.
1854: Pope Pius IX settled an ancient controversy by declaring that Christ’s mother, the Virgin Mary, was preserved from all sin from the moment she was conceived.
1859: Thomas de Quincey, essayist and opium addict, died in Scotland.
1864: The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, designed by Brunel, was opened.
1894: James Thurber, American humorist and creator of Walter Mitty, was born in Columbus, Ohio.
1941: Britain and the United States declared war on Japan.
1980: John Lennon was shot dead in New York by Mark David Chapman.
1991: Leaders of the three republics – Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine – formed a “commonwealth of independent states” and pronounced the Soviet Union dead.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:
Piero Terracina, one of the last survivors of Italy’s tiny Jewish community who were deported to Nazi death camps during the Second World War, died aged 91.
BIRTHDAYS:
James Galway, flautist, 81; Sir Geoff Hurst, former footballer, 79; Kim Basinger, actress, 67; Teri Hatcher, actress, 56; David Harewood, actor, 55; Sinead O’Connor, singer, 54; Dominic Monaghan, actor, 44; Nicki Minaj, singer, 38.
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