753BC: Traditional date for the founding of Rome.
1509: Henry VII died and his second son acceded to the throne as Henry VIII.
1816: Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the three Bronte Sisters and author of Jane Eyre, was born in Thornton, Yorkshire.
1836: The Texans defeated the Mexicans at the Battle of San Juanita.
1873: The Canadian North-West Mounted Police (Mounties) were established.
1910: Novelist Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) died in Reading, Connecticut, aged 74.
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, scourge of World War One British fliers, was shot down in his red Fokker tri-plane and died.
1945: Ivor Novello's Perchance To Dream opened at the London Hippodrome with his now classic song We'll Gather Lilacs. The show ran to 1,022 performances.
1946: Death of British economist John Maynard Keynes.
1983: One pound coins went into circulation in Britain, replacing paper notes in England and Wales but not in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Thousands of Britons abandoned plans to travel to Hong Kong and China as the deadly Sars virus continued to spread.
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