The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
On this day
1879: The British-Zulu War began.
1959: Henry Cooper became the British and European heavyweight boxing champion when he defeated Brian London on points.
1960: Nevil Shute, popular author, notably of A Town Like Alice, died in Melbourne, Australia, where he had emigrated in 1950.
1970: Nigeria’s civil war ended when
the Biafran army surrendered.
1976: Dame Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful detective story writer, died, aged 85.
1987: Prince Edward resigned from the Royal Marines.
2010: A severe 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti. The confirmed death toll rose above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone.