ON THIS DAY

> Birthdays: Bobby Gould, Cathy Tyson and Adriana Lima

NATIONAL DAY OF THE PHILIPPINES 1458: Magdalen College, Oxford, was founded.

1819: Charles Kingsley, clergyman who wrote The Water Babies, was born in Holne, Devon.

1839: Abner Doubleday was credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.

1842: Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School, died the day before his 47th birthday. During his headship, the game of rugby was created by accident when a handball rule was broken by William Webb Ellis during a football match.

1908: The Rotherhithe-Stepney road tunnel under the Thames was opened.

1922: Insulin, the treatment for diabetes, was patented by Frederick Banting.

1930: Germany’s Max Schmeling won the world heavyweight boxing title against Jack Sharkey in New York on a disqualification in round four - and is the only man to win the title in such a manner.

1965: The Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

1987: Princess Anne was made Princess Royal, the title awarded to the monarch’s eldest daughter.

1989: MPs voted 293 to 69 to allow television cameras into the House of Commons. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR:

Slovenia’s government approved the culling of dozens of bears and wolves to curb the animals’ growing population following a sharp increase in attacks on domestic animals.

BIRTHDAYS: Chick Corea, jazz pianist, 79; Pat Jennings, former footballer, 75; Bobby Gould, football manager, 74; Mark Calcavecchia, golfer, 60; Cathy Tyson, actress, 55; Richard Ayoade, actor/director, 43; Adriana Lima, supermodel, 39.