On this day

1422: King Henry V of England died in Vincennes, France, struck down by dysentery. He was succeeded by his ninemonth-old infant son, Henry VI.

1888: Mary Ann ‘’Polly’’ Nichols, first victim of Jack the Ripper, was found mutilated in Buck’s Row in the East End.

1900: Coca-Cola first went on sale in Britain. 1936: Elizabeth Cowell, Britain’s first woman TV announcer, made her debut.

1969: Rocky Marciano, American world heavyweight boxing champion from 1952 to 1956, died in an air crash.

1972: American swimmer Mark Spitz won his fifth gold medal at the Munich Olympics.

1997: Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash in central Paris along with Dodi Fayed.