Western Daily Press (Saturday)
THIS DAY
1307: William Tell is reputed to have shot the apple off his son’s head on this day.
1558: Mary I, “Bloody Mary“, died and was succeeded by Elizabeth I.
1796: Catherine the Great of Russia died of a stroke, aged 67.
1882: The Royal Astronomer witnessed an Unidentified Flying Object from the Greenwich Royal Observatory. It was described as a “strange celestial visitor - a circular object glowing green”.
1887: Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (Monty) was born in London.
1955: Anglesey became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into its water supply.
1959: Two Scottish airports, Prestwick and Renfrew, became the first to offer duty-free goods in Britain.
1970: The Sun pictured its first Page Three girl, Stephanie Rahn.
1988: Franz Kafka’s manuscript of his classic novel The Trial (1925) was sold at Sotheby’s in London for £1 million, a world record for a modern literary text. Kafka had died in poverty the year before.