The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
On this day
1600: Charles I was born at Dunfermline Palace.
1828: Austrian composer Franz Schubert died in Vienna of typhus. He was 31.
1863: Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg Address, with his freedom cry: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
1942: The Russians counter-attacked at Stalingrad and surrounded the German army.
1979: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 “hostages” held in the US embassy in Tehran.
1984: More than 500 people died and 1,000 buildings were destroyed in an explosion at a chemicals factory in Mexico City.
1988: Christina Onassis, daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle, died from a pulmonary edema, aged just 37.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Dyson opened a virtual reality store to allow customers to try out its products before choosing to buy them.