ON THIS DAY

1791: The first performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute took place in Vienna. 1888: Jack the Ripper butchered two more women - Elizabeth “Liz” Stride, found behind 40 Berner Street, and Catherine “Kate” Eddowes, in Mitre Square, both in London. 1935: George Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess received its premiere in Boston. 1936: Pinewood Studios opened near Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, to provide Britain with a film studio to compete with Hollywood. 1938: On his return from Germany, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told a crowd at Heston Airport, Middlesex: ‘’I believe it is peace for our time’’, and waved the agreement he had signed with Hitler. 1939: Identity cards were issued in Britain. 1955: James Dean, eccentric young star of Rebel Without A Cause, Giant and East Of Eden, died in a car crash, aged 24. 1967: BBC’s Radio 1 went on air for the first time, with Tony Blackburn introducing The Breakfast Show. His first record was Flowers In The Rain by The Move. BIRTHDAYS: Angie Dickinson, actress, 85; Barbara Knox, actress, 83; Johnny Mathis, singer, 81; Ian Ogilvy, actor, 73; Rula Lenska, actress, 69; Eric Stoltz, actor, 55; Jenna Elfman, actress, 45; Martina Hingis, former tennis player, 36. QUOTES OF THE DAY: “Who believes any more that trade amongst the nations will lift us all out of the great evil that everyone has spoken of - poverty? And especially now that a liar, a fool and a racist vomits his bile on to the disinherited of the United States” - Bob Geldof on Republican White House candidate Donald Trump. “The President can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally. No, we need an adult in the White House, I guarantee you” - US First Lady Michelle Obama hits out at Donald Trump. “I was so proud to get past the halfway mark; my biggest fear was getting kicked out first, and I did feel like a cat that was running out of its lives” - Rav Bansal, the latest contestant to have left The Great British Bake Off. “He is dressed like a sado-masochistic male strip-o-gram” - Sarah Vine, wife of Tory politician Michael Gove, on leather-clad actor Tom Hiddleston. “I don’t think Strictly Come Dancing will help Ed Balls politically. He didn’t lose his seat because he couldn’t do the quickstep. The problem is, his political career was more like the last tango in Paris” - Ex-Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik. “My kids haven’t watched anything I have been in apart from adverts. They don’t like seeing me kiss actors. They find it weird” - TV star Fay Ripley.