On this day - April 13

FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:

On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how a flash mob launched Chepstow School website

South Wales Argus: Chepstow School new website was launched and was earmarked with sixth form students performing a flashmob in the hall. (5247772)

Five years ago today we reported how a gravedigger was 'amazed' at the interest people had showed in buying his business.

South Wales Argus: HOLE NEW CAREER: Peter Telfer is getting out of gravedigging

The stories from history on this day - April 13

1668: John Dryden was appointed the first poet laureate.

1732: Birth of Frederick, Lord North, who as prime minister levied the tax on tea that incensed the American colonists and provoked the Boston Tea Party.

1742: The first public performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin.

1852: Frank Winfield Woolworth, merchant and founder of the chain store, was born in New York.

1882: The Anti-Semitic League was founded in Prussia.

1912: The Royal Flying Corps was instituted by Royal Charter.

1936: Joe Payne scored 10 goals for Luton Town against Bristol Rovers on his debut as centre forward - a record for one man in one game.

1964: Sidney Poitier became the first black man to win an Oscar for best actor, in The Lilies Of The Field.

1980: Four days after his 23rd birthday, Severiano Ballesteros won the US Masters, the event's youngest winner.

1990: The Soviet Union admitted the massacre of up to 15,000 Polish officers at Katyn in the Soviet Union in 1940.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Temperatures in the late teens made for a balmy 34th London Marathon - as crowd favourite Mo Farah came home in eighth place for his course debut.