On this day

1307: William Tell is reputed to have shot the apple off his son’s head on this day.

1558: Mary I, ‘’Bloody Mary’’, died and was succeeded by Elizabeth I.

1887: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (Monty), who led the Eighth Army to victory in North Africa in the Second World War, was born in London.

1955: Anglesey became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into its water supply.

1959: Two Scottish airports, Prestwick and Renfrew, became the first to offer dutyfree goods in Britain.

1970: The Sun pictured its first Page Three girl, Stephanie Rahn.

1988: Franz Kafka’s manuscript of his classic novel The Trial (1925) was sold at Sotheby’s in London for £1 million.