ON THIS DAY
INDEPENDENCE DAY (LIBERIA)
1745:
cricket Common The match near first took recorded Guildford, place women’s at with Gosden neighbouring village Hambledon against Bramley.
1788: New York became the 11th of the United States.
1856: George Bernard Shaw, playwright, was born in Dublin. A failed novelist, he was 36 when his first play, Widowers’ Houses, was performed.
1875: Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, was born. He was the founder of analytical psychology and first proposed the idea of extrovert and introvert character types.
1895 Robert Graves, English poet, novelist and critic, was born. He wrote I Claudius in 1934 and more than 100 other books.
1908: The Federal Bureau of Investigation was established in Washington, DC.
1945: Clement Attlee’s Labour post-war government came to power with a huge majority. He said: “Labour can deliver the goods.”
1952: King Farouk of Egypt abdicated after a coup led by General Neguib. On the same date in 1956, President Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal just a month after taking power.
1952: Eva Peron (Evita), Argentina’s First Lady, died of cancer, aged 33.
1958: Debutantes were presented at the Royal Court in Britain for the last time. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Every one of us contains alien atoms that originated in a galaxy far, far away, a study suggested.
BIRTHDAYS: Barbara Jefford, actress, 88; John Howard, former prime minister of Australia, 79; Sir Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone, 75; Dame Helen Mirren, actress, 73; Roger Taylor, rock musician (Queen), 69; Susan George, actress, 68; Kevin Spacey, actor, 59; Sandra Bullock, actress, 54; Kate Beckinsale, actress, 45.