1745: The Jacobites, under the Young Pretender, occupied Edinburgh.
1787: Delegates, under the chairmanship of George Washington, approved the Constitution of the United States of America.
1827: Wides in cricket were first scored in the Sussex v Kent game at Brighton.
1908: Lt Thomas Selfridge of the US Army Signal Corps was killed in a crash with Orville Wright in Fort Meyer, Virginia, becoming the first aeroplane fatality.
1931: Long-playing records (33rpm) were demonstrated in New York by RCA-Victor, but the venture failed because of the high price of the players, and the first real microgroove records did not appear until 1948.
1944: The British airborne invasion of Arnhem and Eindhoven in the Netherlands began as part of Operation Market Garden. The objective was to secure a bridge over the Rhine as part of an Allied invasion of Germany.
LAST YEAR: Jaguar signalled the end of an era by ending production at its Coventry factory with the loss of 1,150 jobs.
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