NOW & THEN
Fred Perry defeated Gottfried von Cramm to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title on this day in 1936
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James Crichton of Eliock, a graduate of St Andrews University, a tutor of King James VI and the original “Admirable Crichton”, died in a brawl in Mantua.
Quebec was founded by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain.
Portugal gave Tangier and Bombay to King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Sweden and Denmark signed a peace treaty.
The first cultivated strawberry was exhibited by Michael Keens of Isleworth at a Royal Horticultural Society show.
The last known pair of great auks were killed on the island of Eldey, off Iceland, while incubating an egg.
When the SS Daphne capsized after launch, 124 workers were drowned in the Clyde’s worst accident of its type.
Dow Jones published its first stock average.
Karl Benz drove his first car in Germany.
Tsar Nicholas of Russia issued a decree abolishing the banishment of dissidents to Siberia.
Board of Trade inquiry into the Titanic disaster found Captain Edward J Smith, who went down with the White Star liner after it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage, guilty of negligence.
The world’s first television transmission in colour was made by John Logie Baird, at the Baird Studios in London.
Fred Perry defeated Gottfried von Cramm 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title – the last British winner for 77 years.
The LNER Mallard reached 126mph on the Stoke Bank stretch of line between Grantham and Peterborough, heading south – the world record for a steam locomotive.
Food rationing ended in Britain. Smithfield Market opened at midnight instead of 6am to cope with the demand for beef.
News at Ten appeared on UK television for the first time.
Israel launched the rescue of 103 Air France crew and passengers who had been held for a week at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-palestinian hijackers.
Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand abandoned their hotair balloon Virgin Atlantic Flyer off Rathlin Island, having flown it from Maine, setting a world dis
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Klaus Barbie, the former SS officer known as the “Butcher of Lyon”, was jailed for life for war crimes against humanity in France.
Thirty-one years after their expulsion, South Africa had its Fifa membership reinstated.
John Major, the prime minister, announced that the Stone of Destiny would be returned to Scotland, seven centuries after it was taken to England by Edward I.
The FTSE 100 went into freefall, plummeting 154.2 points to close at 4392.6, its lowest close in five years and wiping more than £37 billion off the value of the UK’S biggest companies.
Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was deposed by the military. Adly Mansour was appointed interim president.
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BIRTHDAYS
Births:
Actor, 59
Paul Young, Edinburgh-born actor, 77; Julie Burchill, journalist, 62; Judith Durham, pop singer (The Seekers), 78; Sir Richard Hadlee MBE, cricketer, 70; Susan Penhaligon, British actress, 72; Sir Tom Stoppard CBE, British playwright, 84; Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver, 34; Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, 50; Tommy Flanagan, Glasgow-born actor, 56; Tracey Emin CBE, artist, 58; Vince Clarke, musician and songwriter (Erasure, Depeche Mode and Yazoo), 61; Henry Olonga, Zimbabwe’s first black Test cricketer, 45; Joanne Harris MBE, British author, 57.
ANNIVERSARIES
1423 Louis XI of France; 1728 Robert Adam, Kirkcaldyborn architect and designer; 1883 Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist; 1923 Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Sue Ryder), charity worker; 1927 Ken Russell, British film director.
1903 Harriet Lane, first lady of USA; 1904 Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born journalist and founder of Zionism; 1969 Brian Jones, Rolling Stone (drowned); 1971 Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors); 2001 Billy Liddell, Scottish footballer; 2011 Anna Massey CBE, British actress.
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