ON THIS DAY

1066: William the Conqueror landed in Pevensey, Sussex. 1399: The first English monarch to abdicate, Richard II, was replaced by Bolingbroke to whom he had surrendered without a fight. Bolingbroke ascended as Henry IV. 1758: Horatio Nelson, hero of Trafalgar and Britain’s greatest sailor, was born at Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk. 1829: London’s first official police force was mobilised and its men nicknamed ‘’Bobbies’’ or ‘’Peelers’’ after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who founded it. 1899: Sir Billy Butlin, holiday camp pioneer, was born. 1930: George Bernard Shaw turned down a peerage. 1938: The Munich Pact, an agreement between Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, was signed, under which the Sudetenland was surrendered to Nazi Germany. 1941: A Nazi death squad murdered 30,000 Russian Jews in Kiev. 1952: British and world water-speed record holder John Cobb was killed on Loch Ness when his vessel Crusader disintegrated after hitting waves at 240mph. 1983: A Chorus Line broke the record as the longest-running Broadway show with its 3,389th performance since July 25, 1975. BIRTHDAYS: Colin Dexter, author, 86; Jerry Lee Lewis, singer, 81; Ian McShane, actor, 74; Lech Walesa, former Polish president, 73; Patricia Hodge, actress, 70; Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, former MP and athlete, 60; Mark Nicholas, broadcaster and former cricketer, 59; Brett Anderson, singer, 49; Luke and Matt Goss, singers (Bros), 48; Emily Lloyd, actress, 46; Mackenzie Crook, actor, 45. QUOTES OF THE DAY: “About 10 years into our relationship, we asked the kids ‘Do you want us to get married? And they went ‘No’. It was perfect the way it was” - Actress Goldie Hawn on why she has not married her long-term partner, Kurt Russell. “Let’s hope it doesn’t turn into a chest cold. Having a chest cold would be like a giraffe with a neck cold” - Wellendowed singer Dolly Parton, who is suffering from a “little head cold”. “I am not trained as an actress. I feel like every job I kind of got by accident, because I tricked them and they just haven’t found out yet. But inevitably they are going to and they are going to fire me” - Bridget Jones star Renee Zellweger. “It’s incredible and a catastrophic misjudgment by Sam and his advisers. I’m angry at the whole situation. I didn’t think England could stoop any lower from what happened in the summer at the Euros. Now here we are, a laughing stock of world football” Former England football captain Alan Shearer on the Sam Allardyce affair.