ON THIS DAY
1600: Charles I was born at Dunfermline Palace in Scotland.
1828: Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, died in Vienna of typhus, aged 31.
1863: Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg address, with his freedom cry: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
1942: The Russians counterattacked at Stalingrad and surrounded the German army.
1979: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 hostages held in the US embassy in Tehran.
1984: More than 500 people died and 1,000 buildings were destroyed in an explosion at a chemicals factory in Mexico City.
1988: Christina Onassis, daughter of the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle, died from a pulmonary oedema, aged just 37.
On this day last year: Dyson opened a virtual reality store to allow customers to try out its products before choosing to buy them.
Birthdays
Ted Turner, media mogul, 84; Calvin Klein, fashion designer, 80; Raymond Blanc, restaurateur, 73; Meg Ryan, actor, 61; Jodie Foster, actor, 60; Douglas Henshall, actor, 57; Lady Davina Windsor, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, 45; Adele Silva, actor, 42.
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