On this day

“Be filled with the Spirit.” (Ephesians 5:18)

In order to be filled with the Spirit, we may need to clear out some things which currently take up space in our hearts and lives. Are we willing for this? J.T. 1547: Coronation of nine-year-old Edward VI, only son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.

1653: Admiral Robert Blake defeated the Dutch fleet under Van Tromp off Portsmouth.

1938: Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary, in protest over prime minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement policy.

1947: Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed the last viceroy of India – the same day the government announced the British would leave India by June 1948.

1962:

Astronaut John Glenn, seen with fellow

Project Mercury astronauts above, became the first American in orbit when he circled the Earth three times in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7.

1978: A judge indicted Isabel Peron, ex-president of Argentina, for fraudulent use of £8 million from a state-run charity.

1985: Contraceptives were first sold in the Irish Republic.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A Japanese spacecraft began its approach towards a distant asteroid on a mission to collect material that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system.

“It is about time businesses started to invest in people in this country. We have over eight million people, which is 20% of the workforce, aged between 16 and 64 that are economically inactive right now” - Home Secretary Priti Patel, pictured, hits back at business critics of the UK Government’s newly announced immigration system.

“She’s a consummate professional. She comes out and does what we all do in the health service: she does the right thing and does her duty for the people she serves” - Flo Panel-Coates, the chief nurse at University College London Trust, praises the Queen as the monarch opened a £100 million medical facility.

“Within 24 hours my whole world and future was swept from under my feet and all the walls that I had taken so long to build around me, collapsed. I am suddenly on a different kind of stage and everyone is watching it happen” - Caroline Flack, pictured, describes the inner turmoil over her arrest in a social media post shared by her family following her death.

“We have a vast amount of work and we seem to have 10 months to do it, or less than 10 months if you calculate the time for ratification so that everybody can be ready on January 1 2021 for the new regime. I would expect some of these negotiations to be rather difficult” - Stefaan De Rynck, a key aide to Brussels’ chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.