OENVETNHTIS DDiArYY

753BC: Bold event Romulus in here founded Rome.

1509: Henry VII died at the age of 52 and Light his second event in son here acceded to the throne as Henry VIII.

1816: Bold Charlotte event in Bronte, here eldest of the three Bronte Sisters and author Light of event Jane in Eyre, here was born in Thornton, Yorkshire.

1910: Bold Novelist event Mark in here Twain (Samuel Clemens) died in Reading, Connecticut, Light event aged in here 74. Halley’s comet appeared in 1835 when he was born and he always said he would die when it appeared again - and he did.

1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, scourge of the First World War British fliers, was shot down in his red Fokker tri-plane and died.

1945: Ivor Novello’s Perchance To Dream opened at the London Hippodrome with his now classic song We’ll Gather Lilacs. The show ran to 1,022 performances.

1946: British economist John Maynard Keynes died.

1960: Brasilia became the new capital of Brazil, transferred from the old capital of Rio de Janeiro.

1983: One pound coins went into circulation in Britain, replacing paper notes in England and Wales but not in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

1989: Tiananmen Square Protests: Around 100,000 students gathered in Tiananmen Square, Beijing to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The memoir Prince was working on at the time of his death would be published later in the year, it was announced.

BIRTHDAYS: Queen Elizabeth II, above, 94; Charles Grodin, actor, 85; Iggy Pop (James Osterberg), singer, 73; Tony Danza, actor, 69; Andie MacDowell, actress, 62; Robert Smith, rock musician (The Cure), 61; Toby Stephens, actor, 51; James McAvoy, actor, 41.