On this day in...

1667 - The first public art exhibition was held in Paris.

1747 - The Scottish Jacobite, Lord Lovat, was beheaded on Tower Hill in London, for high treason. He was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain.

1955 - The McDonalds hamburger chain was founded in Chicago.

1968 - Martin Luther King Jr's funeral took place. It was attended by Jacqueline Kennedy.

1991 - Kevin Keegan was attacked in a lay-by by a man with a baseball bat.

2001 - It was reported that Catherine Zeta-Jones's mum had bought a Skoda.

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