The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
On this day
1458: Magdalen College, Oxford, was founded.
1819: Charles Kingsley, English clergyman who wrote The Water Babies, was born in Holne, Devon.
1839: Abner Doubleday was credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
1842: Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School, died the day before his 47th birthday. During his headship, the game of rugby was created by accident when a handball rule was broken by William Webb Ellis during a football match.
1908: The Rotherhithe-Stepney road tunnel under the Thames was opened.
1922: Insulin, the treatment for diabetes, was patented by Frederick Banting.
1930: Germany’s Max Schmeling won the world heavyweight boxing title against Jack Sharkey in New York on a disqualification in round four – and is the only man to win the title in such a manner.
1965: The Beatles were made MBEs in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
1987: Princess Anne was made Princess Royal, the title awarded to the monarch’s eldest daughter.
1989: MPs voted 293 to 69 to allow television cameras into the House of Commons.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Activists in China released a pangolin into the wild to celebrate new protections for the animal, whose numbers had dropped to near-extinction levels.