ON THIS DAY

1499: Perkin Warbeck, the Flemish imposter claiming to be Richard, Duke of York, was hanged at the Tower of London.

1852: Britain’s first pillar box was erected in St Helier on Jersey.

1869: Valdemar Poulsen, Danish inventor of the tape recorder, which he patented in 1898, was born.

William Hartnell as Dr Who

1888: Harpo Marx, the Marx Brother who never spoke on screen, was born in New York.

1889: The world’s first jukebox was installed in the Palais Royal Saloon, San Francisco.

1910: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, who poisoned his wife to seek a new life with his lover, Ethel Le Neve, was hanged at Pentonville Prison.

1963: The first episode of the BBC TV serial Doctor Who was screened in Britain. The Doctor was played by William Hartnell.