ON THIS DAY
April 3, 2019
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE APRIL 3, 1912
MR GUSTAv HAMel and Miss eleanor Trehawke Davies arrived in Paris by aeroplane at 5.55pm this evening — making Miss Davies the first woman to fly across the Channel. They had left Hendon in a Bleriot monoplane at 9.38am.
APRIL 3, 1962
elIzABeTH TAylOR and eddie Fisher have agreed to divorce. The announcement of the break-up came after weeks of rumours that the marriage was on the rocks while romance blossomed between the beautiful actress and her co-star Richard Burton.