ON THIS DAY

1530: Ivan IV (the Terrible) was born. He was crowned first Tsar of Russia in 1547 and expanded the Russian state with campaigns against the Tartars.

1900: Writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, playing for MCC in his first first-class match, bowled out the great WG Grace who was batting for London County.

1919: The world’s first scheduled air flights began, between London and Paris.

1928: Anfield’s famous Kop terracing at Liverpool’s football ground was opened. It was most likely named after the Battle of Spion Kop in the Boer War. The word “kopje” means small hill. 1978: The Shroud of Turin went on show for the first time on the high altar at St John’s Cathedral in Turin. 1989: The spacecraft Voyager, completing its 12-year voyage to Neptune, sent back pictures of Triton, its moon, and revealed two previously unknown moons.

2008: GB’S triumphant Olympians flew home from Beijing with 19 golds and the nation’s best medal haul for 100 years.

2012: Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.

BIRTHDAYS

Sean Connery, pictured, actor, 88; Frederick Forsyth, novelist, 80; Martin Amis, author, 69; Gene Simmons, rock musician (Kiss), 69; Tim Burton, film director, 60; Billy Ray Cyrus, singer, 57; Joanne Whalley, actress, 54; Ray Quinn, actor, singer and dancer, 30.

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“To be given the opportunity to leave the show in such a huge way was a really exciting opportunity” – Eastenders star Shaheen Jafargholi, whose character was stabbed to death by a knife gang. “The Treasury’s Brexit panic means you can no longer trust the Treasury’s forecasts” – Tory MP Jacob Rees-mogg.

“Bruno is mad as a hatter, a joker, loves to just run around in his underwear” – Shirley Ballas, Strictly Come Dancing head judge on fellow judge Bruno Tonioli.

“If I ever got impeached, the market would crash, I think everybody would be very poor. You would see numbers that you wouldn’t believe” – President Trump, who rates his own presidency A-plus.