ON THIS DAY

1312: Edward III, King Of England from 1327, was born.

1805: Johann Georg Lehner invented the hot dog.

1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde, was born in Edinburgh.

1851: The start of a telegraphic service between London and Paris. 1941: HMS Ark Royal torpedoed by German U-boat, she sank the next day. 1947: Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, resigned after admitting he had disclosed tax proposals to a reporter minutes before he presented the Budget.

1954: Great Britain won the first Rugby League World Cup, defeating hosts France 16-12.

1969: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC staged a symbolic “March Against Death”.

1990: Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, pictured, wrote the first web page on a NeXT workstation.