Dramatic image

We recently featured a dramatic image from Eric Niven of a sunset over Princes Street in Dundee. A reader asked where the photograph had been taken.

He replies: “The sunset photograph from Princes street in Dundee was taken from where it joins Albert Street, so I was reasonably high up from the town centre area without having to be unusually tall.

“I was using a focal length of almost 900mm to try to get a composition. I panned the camera around the rooftops and came out with the silhouette sunset.”

1542: “I die a queen but I would rather have died the wife of Culpepper” were said to be the last words of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII, before she was beheaded on Tower Green.

1692: The Glencoe massacre took place in the Highlands, when the Macdonalds were murdered by their traditional enemies, the Campbells.

1867: Johann Strauss’s waltz The Blue Danube was first performed at a ball in Vienna.

1945: Hundreds of Allied planes bombed Dresden, devastating one of the world’s most beautiful cities.

1958: Dame Christabel Pankhurst, British suffragette and daughter of Emmeline, died.

1974: Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union.

1987: London’s property boom resulted in a 5ft 6in x 11ft broom cupboard opposite Harrods being offered for sale at £36,500, equating to more than £600 per square foot.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Japan announced its first death from the new coronavirus.