ON THIS DAY
1477: William Caxton issued the first dated, printed book from his printing press in Westminster – it was Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers.
1626: St Peter’s Basilica in Rome was consecrated.
1910: There were more than 100 arrests when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons.
1916: The First Battle of the Somme ended.
1926: George Bernard Shaw refused to accept Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to him a year earlier. He said: “I can
forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown.
1933: BBC radio's In Town Tonight was first broadcast.
1987: The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at King's Cross.
1991: Beirut hostage Terry Waite and American Thomas Sutherland were released by their pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad captors.
On this day last year: The NHS was given the green light to offer people living with HIV the first “long-acting injectable” to keep the virus at bay.
Birthdays
Linda Evans, actor, 80; Graham Parker, rock singer, 72; Elizabeth Perkins, actor, 62; Kim Wilde, singer and gardening expert, 62; Kirk Hammett, musician (Metallica), 60; Gavin Peacock, ex-footballer and pundit, 55; Owen Wilson, actor, 54; Chloe Sevigny, actor, 48.
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