On this day
1902: Captain Charles Lindbergh, US pioneer aviator and the first to fly solo across the Atlantic, was born in Detroit. 1929: The first area of “Green Belt” was approved, five miles of land near Hendon, Middlesex.
1945: The Yalta Conference between Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin opened in the Crimea.
1948: Ceylon became a self-governing dominion within the Commonwealth. It later changed its name to Sri Lanka. 1962: The first colour supplement was published by The Sunday Times with features on pop art.
1983: Karen Carpenter, US singer who with her brother formed the successful Carpenters duo, died from heart failure as a result of complications arising from anorexia nervosa.
1987: Dennis Conner’s US crew won back the America’s Cup from Australia. 1990: The New Zealand cricketer Richard
Hadlee (later to be knighted) became the first man to take 400 Test wickets. 2004: The social networking site Facebook is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Britons in mainland China were urged to leave as coronavirus deaths began to rise.