1892 – Janet Flanner, journalist, wrote a weekly letter for the New Yorker from France under the name “Genet” (Frenchified “Janet”) for 50 years except for the Nazi occupation. In 1948, she was made a ...

In rugby union, the British Lions won their Test series in Australia. After losing the opening match 30-12, they made several changes for the second and won it with two late tries ( 8 July ). Today ...

The de Havilland Mosquito was the “Wooden Wonder”—outrageously fast, and formidable. But it wasn’t the only aircraft fashioned from timber. In an age when aluminium promised the future, war forced ...