On this day
1477: William Caxton issued the first dated, printed book from his printing press in Westminster - it was Dictes or Sayengis of The Philosophres.
1626: St Peter’s in Rome (right) was consecrated.
1910: There were more than 100 arrests when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons. 1916: The first battle of the Somme ended.
1926: George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the Nobel Prize money of £7,000 awarded to him a year earlier. He said: “I can forgive Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”
1928: The first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie, was shown.
1933: BBC Radio’s In Town Tonight was first broadcast. 1987: The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at King’s Cross.
1991: Beirut hostage Terry Waite and American Thomas Sutherland were released by their pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad captors.