On this day
2:09pm Tuesday 21st September 2010 in News
19BC: Virgil, the Roman poet, died and his tomb in Naples became a shrine.
1327: Edward II was murdered in the dungeon of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire to ensure his son Edward III could succeed to the throne.
1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart) and his Jacobite army defeated the English at the Battle of Prestonpans.
1756: John McAdam, who introduced the “macadam” system of roadmaking, was born in Ayr.
1792: France was declared a Republic and the monarchy abolished.
1857: British forces retook Delhi from Indian mutineers.
1866: Author HG Wells was born in Bromley, Kent.
1915: Stonehenge, and the surrounding 30 acres of land, was sold by Sir Edmund Antrobus to Mr CH Chubb for £6,600 at auction. Chubb presented it to the nation three years later.
1962: University Challenge, conducted by Bamber Gascoigne, was first transmitted.
1964: Malta became independent, after 164 years of British rule.
1981: Belize, originally known as British Honduras, gained its independence.
LAST YEAR: Sir Alex Ferguson, Gary Lineker and Fabio Capello were among 1,000 guests at a memorial service held for Sir Bobby Robson.
