On this day – 26 April 1923: Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI) in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth laid her bouquet at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in the abbey; other royal brides have subsequently sent their bouquets to be laid there.
On this day – 25 April 1983: German weekly magazine Stern published the first extracts from what it claimed were diaries written by Adolf Hitler. These had initially been authenticated by British historian Lord Dacre, but were soon proved to be.
On this day – 24 April 1913: The Woolworth Building opened in New York. The neo-gothic skyscraper was designed by American architect Cass Gilbert. On completion, it overtook the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower as the world’s tallest building.
On this day – 23 April 1633: Sweden, France and the Protestant princes of Germany formed the League of Heilbronn against the Catholic League in the Thirty Years’ War.
On this day – 22 April 1833: Cornish inventor, mining engineer and builder of the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive Richard Trevithick died, aged 62, at Dartford in Kent.
On this day – 21 April 1643: Royalist commander Prince Rupert recaptured Lichfield from the parliamentarians after blowing up a section of the walls of the Cathedral Close. This was the first time that gunpowder had been used for such a purpose in England.
On this day – 20 April 1653: Oliver Cromwell entered the Commons Chamber at Westminster, called in a troop of soldiers and forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament.
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