The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
On this day
1636: Harvard University was founded, the first in the US. It was named after John Harvard, the English-born Puritan minister who bequeathed £779 and a 300-volume library.
1794: Robert Liston, the Scottish physician who carried out the first operation with the aid of an anaesthetic in Britain, was born in Linlithgow.
1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first dynamo.
1886: The Statue of Liberty Enlightening The World – to give it its full name – was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland as a monument to democracy. The French paid for the statue, the Americans for the pedestal. The statue was designed by Auguste Bartholdi and took nine years to complete. 1914: Polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk was born in New York. Within 10 years of his discovery the vaccine reduced the outbreak of polio by 95%.
1914: George Eastman announced the invention of a colour photograph process to be marketed by his Eastman Kodak Company.
1929: The collapse of the New York Stock Exchange sparked a world economic crisis.
1958: The State Opening of Parliament was televised for the first time.
1971: The House of Commons voted in favour of Britain entering the Common Market – by a majority of 112.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The first attempt by a private Chinese company to send a rocket into space failed.
“Something very big has just happened!” - US president Donald Trump before he announced the death of so-called IS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after being targeted by a US military raid in Syria.
“The death of Baghdadi is an important moment in our fight against terror but the battle against the evil of Daesh is not yet over” - Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“This is a man who is prepared to say anything” - Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, above, says Boris Johnson cannot be trusted on an election date.
“I’m going in to fight that election whenever it comes, this year, whenever, I’ll be ready for it” - Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
“I think we have become addicted to an abusive and binary approach to political decisions: ‘It’s either this or you’re my total enemy’” - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, left.
“The persons who did this are clearly very angry about something. The brave thing to do now is have that conversation with me” - Gay MP Luke Pollard after abusive graffiti was sprayed on his constituency office in Plymouth.
“I used old fertiliser bags for a piece called Farmyard Fashion” - Rachel Irwin, 17, who divides her time between working on her family farm in Co Armagh and attending a fashion design course at the Met College in Belfast.