On this day - April 24
FROM THE ARGUS ARCHIVE:
On this day a year ago the Argus reported on how Gwent crime statistics were now 'reflecting actual crime' according to Gwent PCC Ian Johnston.
Five years ago today we reported how the volcanic ash cloud created an epic journey for a Cwmbran man.
The stories from history on this day - April 24
1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.
1792: La Marseillaise was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.
1889: Sir Stafford Cripps, the Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.
1916: The Easter Rebellion, also known as the Easter Rising, began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland (ended on April 29).
1950: President Harry S Truman denied there were communists in the US government.
1965: The Pennine Way - 250 miles (402km) from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border - was officially opened.
1986: Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, the American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The first portrait of Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby went on display alongside artwork covering 500 years of Church history.
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