On this day

1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.

1792: La Marseillaise was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.

1889: Sir Stafford Cripps, the Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.

1916: The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland (it ended on April 29).

1950: President Harry S Truman denied there were communists in the US government.

1965: The Pennine Way – 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border – was officially opened.

1986: The Duchess of Windsor, American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery, above.

Afghan hound Snuppy became the world’s first cloned dog. CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS: Shirley MacLaine, entertainer, 84; Barbra Streisand, singer-actress, 76; Michael O’Keefe, actor, 63; Stuart Pearce, football manager, 56; Djimon Hounsou, actor, 54; Sachin Tendulkar, former cricketer, 45; Gabby Logan, television presenter, 45; Dave Vitty, radio personality, 44; Kelly Clarkson, singer-songwriter, 36; Ben Howard, singersongwriter, 31.

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