ON THIS DAY
1602:
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public.
The blind English poet John Milton died at the age of 65. A student once wrote in an essay on Milton: “He got married and wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.”
Dracula creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin.
Fred Archer, English champion jockey who won the Derby five times, shot himself, aged only 29.
Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at the University of Wurzburg with the flow of electricity through a partially evacuated glass tube.
The first Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in the Daily Express.
The Munich Beer Hall Putsch - marked the start of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.
Franklin D Roosevelt promising a “New Deal” for America - swept into the White House on a landslide in the US presidential election.
John F Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become US president.
1674: 1847: 1886: 1895: 1920: 1923: 1932: 1960: 1966:
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
Radio Leicester, the first BBC local radio station, was opened.
The famous fruit and vegetable market at Covent Garden in London closed after more than 300 years.
An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.
Bitterns,
1967: 1974: 1987: ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:
a wetland bird which was once extinct in the UK, are booming with populations at a record high, conservationists said.
Nerys Hughes, actress, 77; Roy Wood, rock musician, 71; Bonnie Raitt, singer/ guitarist, 69; Rupert Allason (espionage writer Nigel West), 67; Rickie Lee Jones, singer/ songwriter, 64; Parker Posey, actress, 50; Tara Reid, actress, 43; Brett Lee, former cricketer, 42; Jane Danson, actress, 40; Joe Cole, footballer, 37; Jack Osbourne, TV personality, 33.
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