The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Who said it On this day
“I was told by friends at GCHQ – not formally, I admit – that I was better off sticking to Gmail rather than using the parliamentary system because it was more secure. Frankly, that tells you the level of security and the priority we are giving to democracy in the United Kingdom” - Senior MP and Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat.
“Of course the vaccination programme has helped, but the bulk of the work in reducing the disease has been done by the lockdown. So, as we unlock, the result will inevitably be that we will see more infection, sadly we will see more hospitalisation and deaths. People have just got to understand that”
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“I am not in a rush at all – actually I would quite like to wait until Sienna is a little bit older and kind of going, starting school and stuff, before I have another baby. I had friends who had a baby really easily the first time and then it took them a while the second time and they had to have some fertility treatment and you just don’t know until it happens to you”
- Former Made In Chelsea star Millie Mackintosh.
“I hope all four nations in the UK will be appropriately cautious when it comes to international travel, because it is our biggest risk of undoing all the progress that we’ve made, frankly. Not just in having the virus spread again with new variants, but perhaps new variants undermining the vaccines that we’ve got” - First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
“I’m so excited for Eurovision to return, after the past year we’ve had it’s exactly the kind of joy the world needs” - Graham Norton, who will be commentating on Eurovision live from Rotterdam. 1471: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, in the War of the Roses.
1759: George Frideric Handel, German composer, died in London, where most of his music-making had been done. 1828: Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
1865: Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, dying the next day.
1894: Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated his “kinetoscope” moving-picture machine in New York. 1917: Dr Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof, Polish physician who invented the international language Esperanto, died. 1929: The Monaco Grand Prix was first run – 78 laps round the narrow streets and harbour of Monte Carlo. 1931: The Ministry of Transport issued the first Highway Code.
1983: The first cordless telephone, capable of operating up to 600ft from base, was introduced.
2003: The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Spitfire pilot Sergeant James Eric William Ballard was posthumously added to the ranks of The Few in a rare occasion nearly 80 years after the Battle of Britain.