ON THIS DAY

■ 1477: William Caxton issued the first dated, printed book from his printing press in Westminster - it was Dictes or Sayengis of The Philosophres.

■ 1626: St Peter’s in Rome was consecrated.

■ 1910: There were more than 100 arrests when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons.

■ 1916: The first battle of the Somme ended.

■ 1926: George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to him a year earlier. He said: “I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”

■ 1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown.

■ 1933: BBC Radio’s In Town Tonight was first broadcast.

■ 1987: The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at King’s Cross.

■ 1991: Beirut hostage Terry Waite, above, and American Thomas Sutherland were released by their pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad captors.

■ ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The NHS was given the green light to offer people living with HIV the first “longacting injectable” to keep the virus at bay.

■ BIRTHDAYS: Linda Evans, actress, 80; Graham Parker, rock singer, 72; Elizabeth Perkins, actress, 62; Kim Wilde, singer and gardening expert, 62; Kirk Hammett, musician (Metallica), 60; Gavin Peacock, former footballer and pundit, 55; Owen Wilson, actor, 54, above; Chloe Sevigny, actress, 48.

■ The recycled paper content of UK newspapers in 2021 was 65.7%