ON THIS DAY
1536: Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I, was executed on Tower Green for alleged adultery.
1588: The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon.
1802: The French Legion d’honneur was created by Napoleon.
1898: William Ewart Gladstone, four times Liberal prime minister, died at Hawarden Castle, aged 88.
1906: The 20km Simplon rail tunnel between Switzerland and Italy was officially opened.
1935: TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) died six days after a motorcycle accident in Dorset.
1982: Actress Sophia Loren was jailed for tax evasion.
1984: Former Poet Laureaute Sir John Betjeman doed aged 77. He was buried in the churchyard at St Enodoc’s Church in Trebetherick, Cornwall.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex celebrated their third wedding anniversary.