The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
On this day
1802: Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was published.
1831: George Pullman, US industrialist and inventor who designed the deluxe railway carriages that bear his name, was born.
1847: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh.
1869: Sir Henry Wood, English conductor, was born in London. In 1895 he founded the Promenade Concerts (Proms) and he conducted them until his death in 1944.
1875: Bizet’s Carmen was first performed at the Opera Comique in Paris. Critics called it “painful, blatant, noisy and eminently repulsive” and the composer died three months later.
1911: Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter), the platinum blonde actress, was born in Kansas City.
1931: The US Congress adopted The Star-spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, as the national anthem.
1961: Edwin Bush was Britain’s first suspected criminal to be identified by means of an “Identi-kit” picture.
1974: A Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed near Paris, killing more than 340 people, including members of an English rugby club. 1982: The Barbican Arts Centre in London was opened.
1985: The miners’ strike ended, almost a year after it had begun. 1991: Estonia and Latvia voted for independence from the Soviet Union.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The UK Government published a 27-page document setting out the Uk-wide response to Covid-19.