NOW & THEN
13 NOVEMBER
1093: King Malcolm III died at the Battle of Alnwick, during an invasion of Northumbria. Malcolm Canmore, husband of St Margaret, was the last of the Celtic kings of Scotland.
1715: Battle of Sheriffmuir between the Jacobite army under the Earl of Mar and Hanoverian troops under the Duke of Argyll.
1851: Telegraph service between London and Paris opened.
1887: The “Bloody Sunday” riot took place in London, when a march against unemployment and coercion in Ireland was attacked by police and the British Army. There were 400 arrests and 75 people injured. 1914: The brassiere was patented in the United States by Mary Phelps Jacob.
1916: Battle of the Somme ended at a cost of 60,000 Allied lives, having started on 1 July. 1935: Anti-british riots took place in Egypt.
1936: Edward VIII told prime minister Stanley Baldwin he intended to marry twicedivorced American Mrs Wallis Simpson.
1939: Bombs hit the Shetland Islands, the first to drop on British soil in the Second World War. 1956: The United States Supreme Court declared invalid Alabama’s law segregating black people from whites on buses. 1960: A fire in a cinema at Amude, Spain killed 152 schoolchildren.
1964: Pope Paul VI said he would give his jewelled tiara to the world’s poor.
1965: During a live BBC TV debate, theatre critic Kenneth Tynan became the first person to use the work f*ck on television, causing huge controversy and led to four censoring motions in the House of Commons.
1973: State of emergency declared after overtime ban by Britain’s electricity and coal workers.
1979: The Times newspaper resumed publication having been closed for almost ayear due to an industrial dispute. 1980: The Us spacecraft Voyager I sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Saturn. 1987: The first criminal conviction based on genetic fingerprinting led to a rapist being sentenced at Bristol Crown Court to eight years’ imprisonment. 1988: Ayrton Senna won the Australian Grand Prix to clinch the World Drivers Championship by three points.
2001: The Afghanistan capital of Kabul fell to the American and British-backed Northern Alliance.
2001: The cost of the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood soared to above £240 million, six times the original estimate. (It eventually topped £400m.) 2004: MP Boris Johnson was dismissed as the Conservative Party vice-chairman and arts spokesman after accusations of lying about an affair.
2015: Armed terrrorists attacked a number of bars and restaurants in Paris, targeted a football match between France and Germany with suicide bombers and slaughtered members of the audience at a rock concert. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks, which left 129 dead.
BIRTHDAYS
George Carey, Baron Carey of Clifton, Archbishop of Canterbury 1991-2002, 86; Bonnie Dobson, Canadian singer and songwriter, 81; Whoopi Goldberg, actress, 66; Joe Mantegna, American actor, director, producer, 74; Chris Noth, American actor, 67; Terry Reid, British rock musician, 72; Alexandra Shulman CBE, former editor of British Vogue, 64; Howard Wilkinson, English football administrator and former manager, 78; Steve Zahn, American actor and comedian, 54; Art Malik, actor, 69; John Paul Hammond, blues singer and guitarist, 79; Kelly Sotherton, British heptathlete, 45.
ANNIVERSARIES
Births: 1312 Edward III, king of England; 1833 Edwin Booth, Skaespearean actor; 1850 Robert Louis Stevenson, author; 1930 Adrienne Corri, Scottish actress and author; 1931 Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, British Labour politician. Deaths: 1093 Malcolm III (Canmore), king of Scotland; 1770 George Grenville, British prime minister 1763 to 1765; 1868 Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer; 1903 Camille Pissarro, painter; 2017 Baron (Peter) Imbert, Metropolitan Police Commissioner 1987-93 .