ON THIS DAY

1607: John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, was born in London.

1864: Charles Dodgson presented a little girl called Alice Liddell with a story she had inspired him to write. It was called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which later became Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and was published under Dodgson’s pen name Lewis Carroll.

1942: The film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York.

1968: Rock group Cream – Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker – played their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

1983: Gold bars worth £25 million were stolen from the Brinks Mat security warehouse at Heathrow Airport.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Plans to impose a travel ban on six African nations, due to rising concerns over a new Covid variant, were announced.