ON THIS DAY
1607:
Captain John Smith landed on the Virginia coast and started the first permanent English settlement in the New World – Jamestown.
1830:
The republic of Ecuador was created.
1835:
Death of architect John Nash, who planned Regent’s Park and Trafalgarsquare.
1842:
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer, was born in Lambeth, son of a bandmaster at Sandhurst Military College.
1846:
The United States declared war on Mexico.
1914:
Joe Louis, heavyweight boxing champion, known as the “Brown Bomber”, was born in Lexington, Alabama.
1943:
German and Italian forces in Africa
surrendered.
1961:
Death of Gary Cooper, American actor who was twice an Oscar winner, aged 60.