On this day

1807: Round-arm bowling was introduced to English cricket by John Willes of Kent in the Kent v England match at Penenden Heath.

1837: London’s first railway station, Euston, opened.

1871: The English Football Association Challenge Cup Competition was formed, to become better known as the FA Cup. The first final saw the Wanderers beat the Royal Engineers by one goal to nil, watched by a crowd of 2,000.

1885: The original vamp, Theda Bara, was born in Cincinnati. She stunned audiences in her 1915 debut movie A Fool There Was, which was inspired by Kipling’s poem The Vampire – hence the expression.

1940: The first singles charts were published in the US journal Billboard. No 1 was I’ll Never Smile

Again by the Tommy Dorsey band, with vocals by Frank Sinatra.

1944: An assassination attempt on Hitler was made by a German staff officer, Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg. He was summarily executed, as were 1,000 other people implicated in the plot.

1968: Actress Jane Asher broke off her engagement with Paul McCartney in a BBC television interview.

1969: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” said Neil Armstrong when he emerged from the Eagle lunar module to take man’s first step on the moon, above left.

1973: Kung-fu film star Bruce Lee, above right, died in Hong Kong.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: An explosion at a gas factory in central China left multiple people dead.

“It’s only when you hear about the escapades of Poppy and all her canine colleagues that you appreciate the vital work they do to protect us from harm” - Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle, who met Poppy the explosives detection dog while she was doing a regular sweep of the Commons and Lords chambers, pictured above.

“It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on. We are working with our international partners on this. It is deeply, deeply troubling. The reports of the human aspect of it – from forced sterilisation to the education camps – are reminiscent of something we have not seen for a long, long time” - Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on the plight of Uighur people in northern China.

“You have seen what happened between China (and) the United States. They sanctioned Chinese officials, we sanctioned their senators, their officials. I do not want to see this tit-for-tat between China-US happen in ChinaUK relations” - China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming.

“For me every day is a celebration of being not dead again, but today I get a badge” - Hollyoaks star Joe Tracini, who thought he would die before he was 25 during his battle with drugs, celebrates his 32nd birthday and being clean for eight years.