The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
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.
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 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 and American Thomas Sutherland were released by their proiranian Islamic Jihad captors.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The NHS was given the green light to offer people living with HIV the first “long-acting injectable” to keep the virus at bay.