On this day in 1439, kissing was banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death.
Thankfully, official restrictions haven’t quite gone that far in Australia yet!
On July 16, 1790, in the USA, Congress declared the city of Washington the permanent capital of the United States, and a National Geographic photographer took the world’s first ‘natural colour’ undersea photo on this day in 1926.
In 2005, author J.K. Rowling published the sixth book in her Harry Potter series, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. If she was at all worried about sales of her sixth offering, she needn’t have been as it sold nine million copies in 24 hours!
The supposed curse of the Kennedys struck again on this day in 1999, when John F. Kennedy Jr, his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette were killed in a plan crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard.
And in sport on this day in 2017, crowd favourite Roger Federer beat Marin Čilić 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 for a record 8th Wimbledon men’s title.
