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Again Jesus began to teach by the lake. The crowd that gathered around him was so large that he got into a boat and sat in it out on the lake, while all the people were along the shore at the water’s edge. (Mark 4.1)

Jesus was popular and the crowds flocked to see him. Was it just so that he could heal people? No, he had a wonderful message to pass on as well. (JF) 1642: Montreal in Canada was founded.

1804: Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor of France.

1872: Philosopher, mathematician, nuclear disarmer and Nobel Prize winner, Bertrand Russell, was born.

1882: The present Eddystone Lighthouse in Cornwall, the fourth in existence, was opened.

1909: Fred Perry, three times Wimbledon men’s singles champion, above left, was born.

1961: The first London production of The Sound Of Music opened. 1980: Mount St Helens volcano, pictured above, in the American state of Washington, erupted, killing dozens of people. A cloud of ash 2,500 miles long and 1,000 miles wide was created.

1990: A treaty was signed in Bonn introducing economic and monetary union between East and West Germany.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Gay couples in Taiwan planned a mass wedding registration after politicians voted to legalise same-sex marriage.

“Oh, it’d be completely different. Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure. I’m not sure what else, but, to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong” - Lisa Kudrow, left, who starred as Phoebe Buffay, defends Friends.

“People shouldn’t panic in the sense that we know the economy – probably at its worst last month – may have been a third or so smaller than it normally would have been in terms of the output of goods and services and people’s spending. But that should be the worst of it and we now go into a period of recovery as the restrictions are loosened” - Robert Chote, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility.

“I do feel sorry for young musicians and, you know, also orchestral musicians, these people that have studied for years and years and years to play in orchestras. They’re all out of work – the road crews, the truck drivers, the lighting people” - The Who frontman Roger Daltrey.

“The ESC is one hell of a launching pad. And it still remains one of the most genuinely joyous events of the TV era and it is so disarmingly European. It also allows you to escape and be happy” - Abba star Bjorn Ulvaeus hails the Eurovision Song Contest.

“I have found this strangely emotional” - Graham Norton, above, who hosted the UK’s coverage of the Eurovision: Shine A Light celebration which replaced this year’s cancelled song contest.