ON THIS DAY

1613: The original Globe Theatre in London burns down during the first performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.

1855: The Daily Telegraph is first published in London.

1949: South Africa begins its apartheid program by enacting a ban against racially mixed marriages.

1967: Jayne Mansfield, US film actress, is killed in a car crash near New Orleans.

2001: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 63, is unanimously re-elected to a second term by a 189-member General Assembly.

2015: Greece misses a key debt repayment deadline to the IMF.

Birthdays: Ken Done, Australian artist (1940-); Mike Willesee, Australian journalist (1942-); Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian singer (1953-); Nicole Scherzinger, US singer (1978-).