ON THIS DAY
1860: The first weather forecast appeared in The Times.
1870: Emperor Napoleon III, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, was deposed and the Third Republic declared in France.
1886: Geronimo, Apache chief and leader of the last great Native American rebellion, surrendered in Arizona to General Nelson Miles. 1909: The first Boy Scout rally took place at Crystal Palace in London. 1939: The British liner Athenia was sunk by a German U-boat, the first sinking of its kind, off the coast of Ireland. 1964: The Forth road bridge, 6,156ft long and with a centre span of 3,300ft, was opened by the Queen. 1965: Albert Schweitzer, French medical missionary, died aged 90 in Gabon, the village where he had opened his hospital for natives. 1970: Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defected to the West during a visit to London by the Kirov Ballet.
1989: Georges Simenon, creator of detective Maigret, died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The Duke of Cambridge took part in an online ceremony to honour the emergency services.