On this day - April 14

FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE: On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how a Newport golf course which was closed for four months due to flooding re-opened.

South Wales Argus: Caerleon golf club green keeper Stuart Whittington tries to play a shot on the flooded course (3779470)

Five years ago today we reported how Newport County players were to be honoured after being promoted to the Blue Square Premier League.

South Wales Argus: NIGHT TO REMEMBER: County fans and players savour the moment on Monday after their title-winning victory

The stories from history on this day - April 14

1471: The Yorkists defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet, in the War of the Roses.

1759: George Frideric Handel, German composer, died in London, where most of his music-making had been done.

1828: Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.

1865: Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th president, was shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth, dying the next day.

1894: Thomas Edison publicly demonstrated his ''kinetoscope'' moving picture machine in New York.

1917: Dr Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhof, Polish physician who invented the international language Esperanto, died.

1929: The Monaco Grand Prix was first run - 78 laps round the narrow streets and harbour of Monte Carlo.

1931: The Ministry of Transport issued the first Highway Code.

1983: The first cordless telephone, capable of operating up to 600ft from base, was introduced.

2003: The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A same-sex couple married in what was believed to be the UK's first gay wedding held in a church.