A look back at events in history on July 23 with Mike Badham

776BC: The first Olympic Games were held in Greece.

1745: Young Pretender Charles Stuart landed in the Hebrides.

1821: Great actor Edmund Kean returned from America with the toe-bone of dead actor Frederick Cooke, whom he looked on as the greatest. At Drury Lane, he made all the actors kiss the bone.

1884: The four-man crew of the wrecked Mignonette, maddened by hunger and thirst killed the cabin boy Richard Parker, 17, and ate him. Five days later they were picked up. Back in England, the killers were tried for murder, but drew only six months' jail. 1888: Crime novel writer Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago. His parents emigrated to England, and he attended Dulwich College in London, where he was a schoolmate of P.G. Wodehouse. After journalism and a civil service job he returned to the States and went into the oil business. He married a women nine years his senior, took to drink and became a successful writer late in life. His best-known book is probably Farewell, My Lovely.

1904: Charles Menches launched his great invention in St Louis, Missouri: the ice-cream cone.

1940: The Government imposed a 23 per cent tax on luxury goods.

1942: The Vichy Government agreed to let Japan use French Far East bases in Indochina.

1943: Archibald Brown of Rayleigh, Essex, a bad-tempered invalid who made his family's life a misery, was blown to bits by an army mine placed in his bath chair. The culprit was his son Eric, 19, home on leave. Eric was found guilty but insane.

1945: In Paris, Vichy premier Marshal Petain went on trial for treason.

1953: This ad appeared in a London evening paper: For Sale: 100-year-old brass bed, perfect for antique lover.

1986: Prince Andrew married Fergie in Westminster Abbey and was created Duke of York.

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