ON THIS SUNDAY
1877: Motoring pioneer William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, was born in Worcester.
1881: The Savoy Theatre, the first public building to be lit by electricity, opened.
1903: Emmeline Pankhurst formed the Women’s Social and Political Union to fight for female emancipation in Britain.
1935: Gershwin’s Porgy And Bess opened in New York.
1957: A major radiation leak was detected at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, after an accident three days earlier.
1961: A volcano erupted on the South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha and the whole population was brought to Britain.
1972: Sir John Betjeman was appointed Poet Laureate.
1975: After divorce in the early 1970s, followed by several reconciliations and separations, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor remarried in a remote village in Botswana. They divorced again the
following year.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Joe Wicks said being made an MBE was his “proudest achievement” as he thanked everyone who’d supported and taken part in his daily exercise sessions during lockdown.