On this day

1645: The Battle of Naseby took place in Northamptonshire during the English Civil War. Cromwell’s Parliamentarians (Roundheads) defeated the Royalists (Cavaliers) under Prince Rupert, defending King Charles I.

1789: Whiskey distilled from maize was first produced

– by a clergyman, the Rev Elijah Craig. He called the liquor bourbon because he lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

1839: The first Henley Regatta on the Thames.

1840: The first reducedrate railway excursion was introduced when Newcastle & Carlisle Railway ran a works family outing from Newcastle to Carlisle. 1873: King Priam’s treasure of 8,700 priceless pieces was discovered in Turkey by German/American Heinrich Schliemann. In disinterring it, he destroyed what was left of Troy.

1919: Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown took off from Newfoundland on the first non-stop transatlantic flight to Galway, Ireland, in a Vickers Vimy.

1940: German troops entered Paris, and the Swastika

Tower.

1964: Nelson Mandela, pictured, was sentenced to life in jail and sent to Robben Island, seven miles off Cape Town, sparking international protests.

1970: Bobby Charlton played his 106th and last international football match for England in the Mexico World Cup. His first was on April 19 1958, against Scotland.

1982: Argentinian troops on the Falkland Islands surrendered when General Mario Benjamin Menendez agreed to an armistice.

BIRTHDAYS: Mike Yarwood, entertainer, 77; Donald Trump, United States president, 72. flew from the Eiffel