The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
ON THIS DAY
● 1675: Greenwich Observatory was established by King Charles II, who laid the foundation stone.
● 1787: Mozart completed his famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. On the same day in 1788, he finished his Jupiter Symphony.
● 1842: The Mines Act was passed by the British Parliament, forbidding women and children to work underground.
● 1889: The screw bottle top was patented by Dan Rylands of Hope Glass Works, Barnsley.
● 1897: The Royal Automobile Club was founded, under the name of The Automobile Club of Great Britain.
● 1949: “Acid bath” murderer John Haigh, who confessed to nine killings, was executed at Wandsworth Prison.
● 1961: Britain first applied for membership of the EEC.
● 2010: Archaeologists announced that they had discovered Britain’s earliest house at Star Carr, near Scarborough, believed to date back to 8,500 years BC.