On this day in...
1888 - the English Football League was formed.
1891 - American comedian Chico Marx was born. His films include Love Happy, Animal Crackers and Duck Soup.
1935 - Persia was renamed Iran.
1942 - the BBC began broadcasting in morse code to the French Resistance.
1967 - filming of the Elvis movie Clambake was postponed for a fortnight, when the star hit his head in the bathtub.
2003 - ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed while reporting from the war in Iraq.
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