On this day - April 9
FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:
On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how work on Newport’s £90m Friars Walk development was officially launched by Newport's mayor.
Five years ago today we reported how the sign in Newport's HSBC bank was welcoming customers to the wrong town - Oswestry which is 90 miles away.
The stories from history on this day - April 9
1483: The young Edward V acceded to the throne on the death of Edward IV. He was never crowned and disappeared, believed murdered, 75 days later.
1626: Francis Bacon, philosopher and statesman, died - apparently killed by a chicken. He was trying to stuff it with snow as a method of preservation, caught a chill and died.
1806: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, railway and marine engineer whose works included the Clifton Suspension Bridge and steamship Great Western, was born in Portsmouth.
1838: The National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, was opened.
1865: Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered to General Grant in Virginia, bringing the American Civil War to an end.
1898: Paul Robeson, actor and singer, was born in New Jersey. He is best known for his singing of Ol' Man River in Jerome Kern's Show Boat.
1906: Labour politician Hugh Gaitskell was born in London. As chancellor of the exchequer in 1951, he introduced NHS charges, causing Aneurin Bevan, minister of health, to resign.
1940: Germany invaded Norway and Denmark.
1945: The USS Liberty exploded in Bari harbour, Italy, killing 360 people.
1969: The first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1981: The US Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collided with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
1983: Jenny Pitman became the first woman to train an English Grand National winner with Corbiere.
1991: Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union.
2003: Baghdad fell to American forces, Iraqis pulled down a statue of former leader Saddam Hussein.
2005: The Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The chief prosecutor in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial urged the athlete to ''take responsibility'' for fatally shooting his girlfriend, telling him to look at a police photograph of a dead Reeva Steenkamp's bloodied head that was displayed in court.
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