On this day

1607: John Harvard, founder of Harvard University, was born in London.

1864: Charles Dodgson presented a little girl called Alice Liddell with a story she had inspired him to write. It was called Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which later became Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and was published under Dodgson’s pen name of Lewis Carroll.

1922: Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed more than 3,000 years earlier. 1942: The film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York. 1968: The powerhouse rock trio Cream – Eric Clapton, Jack

Bruce and Ginger Baker – played their farewell concert at the

Royal Albert Hall, London.

1983: Gold bars worth £25 million were stolen from the Brinks Mat security warehouse at Heathrow Airport.

Birthdays

Tina Turner (pictured), rock singer, 82; John Mcvie, rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), 76; Des Walker, former footballer, 56; Garcelle Beauvais, actress, 55; Tammy Lynn Michaels, actress, 47; Natasha Bedingfield, singer, 40; Trevor Morgan, actor, 35; Rita Ora, singer, 31.

Quotes of the day

“I feel better when I read. I sleep better. At night, if I’m not doing a food shop online, I often write the next day’s opening link, try and get a bit of content for the radio, and then I’ll fall into an Instagram hole and end up looking at Zoe Ball’s latest gardening antics or Fearne Cotton doing yoga ...

“You start looking at stuff and then you’re swallowed up and it’s nearly 11, which for me, is pretty late” – BBC radio and TV personality Sara Cox, host of the returning book show, Between The Covers, on her late-night habits.