The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
On this day
1531: About 20,000 people died in an earthquake in Lisbon.
1797: £1 notes were first issued by the Bank of England.
1815: Napoleon escaped from exile on the island of Elba and returned to France.
1839: The Grand National was first run at Aintree.
1846: William Frederick Cody – Buffalo Bill – American army scout and showman, was born in Scott County, Iowa.
1935: Radar was first demonstrated in Daventry by Robert Watson-Watt.
1936: The Volkswagen car factory was opened in Saxony by Adolf Hitler.
1950: Scottish music hall singer and comedian Sir Harry Lauder died, aged 79.
1983: Northern Irishman Pat Jennings became the first footballer to play in 1,000 first-class football matches.
1989: Burke’s Peerage reported King Arthur’s Round Table had been found near Stirling, Scotland, on the banks of the Carron River.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 were kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.