Western Daily Press (Saturday)
THIS DAY
1066: Edward the Confessor, England’s most pious king, died.
1787: John Burke, genealogist and founder of Burke’s Peerage, was born in Tipperary, Ireland.
1884: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida was premiered at the Savoy Theatre.
1896: German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen gave the first demonstration of X-rays.
1919: The Nazi Party was founded by Anton Drexler in Munich.
1941: Amy Johnson, English aviator and first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in
1930, drowned in a mysterious accident over the Thames estuary.
1948: Mrs Dale first opened her radio diary. She was noted for always being “worried” about her doctor husband, Jim.
1971: One-day international cricket was born when 46,000 spectators watched England play Australia at Melbourne. The scheduled Test match had been aborted by rain. 1981: The hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper ended when lorry-driver Peter Sutcliffe was charged with murder.