ON THIS DaY

■■ 1453: The Hundred Years War ended when the French defeated the English at Castillon.

■■1717: George I, Hanoverian King of England, held a public concert on the Thames for Handel to conduct his hour-long Water Music. The King enjoyed it so much he asked for two complete encores.

■■1841: The first issue of the magazine Punch was published in London.

■■1889: Erle Stanley Gardner, US author and lawyer who created Perry Mason, was born.

■■1917: The British Royal Family adopted the name House of Windsor in place of House of SaxeCoburg-Gotha.

■■1945: The Potsdam Conference began with world leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill planning for the future peace at the end of the Second World War.

■■1955: Walt Disney’s Disneyland was opened in California.

■■1959: Billie Holiday, jazz singer probably the greatest of them all was arrested on her death bed in hospital for possession of narcotics. She died later that day.

■■1969: Oh Calcutta!, the sex revue devised by theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, opened in New York. Critic Clive Barnes said the show gave pornography a dirty name.

■■1975: An international space link-up between US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts took place when they crossed over from their docked spacecraft and shook hands 140 miles above Britain’s south coast. ■■ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was sentenced to life behind bars in a US prison, a humbling end for a crime lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or tunnel his way out of trouble.

■■BIRTHDAYS: Alun Armstrong, actor, 74, above; Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, 73; Wayne Sleep, dancer, 72; David Hasselhoff, actor and singer, 68; Darren Day, actor, singerm and television presenter, 52; Jaap Stam, retired footballer, 48; Konnie Huq, TV presenter, 45.

■■ The recycled paper content of UK newspapers in 2016 was 62.8%