ON THIS DAY
1602: The Bodleian Library at Oxford University opened to the public.
1674: The blind English poet John Milton died at the age of 65. A student once wrote in an essay on Milton: “He got married and wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.”
1847: Dracula creator Bram Stoker was born in Dublin.
1886: Fred Archer, English champion jockey who won the Derby five times, shot himself, aged 29.
1895: Wilhelm Rontgen discovered X-rays during an experiment at the University of Wurzburg with the flow of electricity through a partially evacuated glass tube.
1920: The first Rupert Bear cartoon appeared in the Daily Express.
1923: The Munich Beer Hall Putsch marked the start of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.
1932: Franklin D Roosevelt –promising a “New Deal” for America – swept into the White House on a landslide in the US presidential election.
1960: John F Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become US president.
1966: Former Massachusetts attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate.
1967: Radio Leicester, the first BBC local radio station, was opened.
1974: The famous fruit and vegetable market at Covent Garden in London closed after more than 300 years.
1987: An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.
On this day last year: The dress worn by Amy Winehouse during her final stage performance sold for more than $243,000 (£180,000) at an auction of the late singer’s estate.
Birthdays
Nerys Hughes, actor, 81; Roy Wood, rock musician, 76; Bonnie Raitt, singer/guitarist, 73; Rupert Allason (espionage writer Nigel West), 71; Rickie Lee Jones, singer/songwriter, 68; Parker Posey, actor, 54; Tara Reid, actor, 47; Brett Lee, former
cricketer, 46; Jane Danson, actor, 44; Joe Cole, ex-footballer and broadcaster, 41; Jack Osbourne, TV personality, 37.
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