Also on this day

1599: Spanish painter Diego Velazquez (right) is born.

1933: America’s first drive-in theatre opens in Camden, New Jersey.

1944: Normandy landings begin on D-day.

January 17, 1912 – only to see the Norwegian flag. Amundsen had beaten them by a month.

Scott wrote in his diary: “The worst has happened. Great God! This is an awful place.”

They still faced a near 900-mile trek back to base and the weather was turning.

A month in and Edgar Evans died. On March 16, an exhausted and frostbitten Lawrence Oates left his tent to die, telling Scott: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”

The remaining three continued and made it to within 12 miles of the supplies depot when a blizzard trapped them in their tent. Over the next nine days their supplies ran out.

Scott’s last diary entry implored Great Britain to care for the men’s families, stating: “For God’s sake look after our people.”

Their bodies were found eight months later and left entombed in the ice. A cross marks the spot, inscribed with Tennyson’s words: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Scott’s reputation since has changed with the times, varying from tragic hero to flawed bungler. But he is remembered as Scott of the Antarctic, a soubriquet that speaks for itself.

Question: What youth organisation was founded in London on this day in 1844?

Last week I asked: Which Dutch Baroque artist, whose work includes the Massacre Of The Innocents, died on this day in 1640? RUBENS.