On this day

z 1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born. z 1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London. z 1950: President Truman denied there were communists in the US Government. z 1965: The Pennine Way – 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border – was officially opened. z 1986: The Duchess of Windsor, the American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89. z 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery. z 2005: Snuppy becomes the world’s first cloned dog.