ON THIS DAY

776 BC: The first Olympic Games opened in Olympia. The foot race was won by Coroibos, a cook. 1759: Work started on the Royal Navy’s 104-gun battleship HMS Victory at Chatham, Kent, built from the wood of 6,000 trees, 90% of which were oak. 1888: Crime novelist Raymond Chandler - creator of Philip Marlowe - was born in Chicago. He turned to writing when he was 44, after being fired from his job for alcoholic excesses. 1892: Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, was born. When the Italians invaded in 1936, he went into exile, but resumed full authority after Ethiopia was liberated in 1941. 1904: The first ice cream cone was made by Charles Menches in Missouri. 1940: The Local Defence Volunteers were renamed the Home Guard by Winston Churchill. 1949: Brian Close became the youngest Test cricketer (at that time) when he played against New Zealand at Old Trafford. He was 18 years and 149 days old. 1955: Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Ullswater when he reached 202.32mph in Bluebird. 1986: Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in Westminster Abbey, and was made Duke of York following a 600-year-old tradition for the monarch’s second son. Lord Rogers, architect, 83; David Essex, singer, 69; Graham Gooch, former cricketer, 63; Kate Buffery, actress, 59; Woody Harrelson, actor, 55; Slash, rock guitarist (Guns N’ Roses), 51; Monica Lewinsky, former White House intern, 43. QUOTES OF THE DAY: “I want to be able to guarantee the rights of those EU citizens living in the UK, I expect to be able to do so, and the only situation in which that wouldn’t be possible is if British citizens’ rights in European member states were not being protected” Prime Minister Theresa May after talks with French President Francois Hollande. “The sooner you go the better” - Mr Hollande talking to Mrs May about Brexit. “I am really proud to be one of the women on the all-women front benches. It seems that we might be taking over the world slowly but surely, which is fantastic” - Shadow women’s and equality minister Angela Rayner. “The women in these American TV shows are all copies of each other. They’re all taut, they are smooth maybe they had Botox, I don’t know, but everyone is smooth - and the bodies are tight. But they’re all copies. There’s no individuality any more” Actress Britt Ekland. “Donald Trump’s rhetoric makes even me wince a little bit” - Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage.