Months Past

The chef and restaurateur died on 12 February 1935.

Child genius, engineer, inventor and physicist, Nikola Tesla died on 7 January 1943.

The patron saint of children and barrel-makers died on 6 December 343. 

A legislative highlight of the great reforming post-war Labour Government took effect on 1 January 1947.

One of England’s best-known kings died on 28 January 1547. 

The inventor of the saxotromba, saxhorn, saxtuba and saxophone was born on 6 November 1814.

The English reporter who posed as a man to become a soldier during the First World War was born on 4 October 1896.

The Roman leader was born 29 September 106 BC.

‘Little Miss Sure Shot’, Annie Oakley, was born 13 August 1860.