Richard Cavendish

The father of today’s frozen food business died on 7 October, 1956.

The furniture maker died on October 22nd, 1806.

Sylvia Pankhurst was taken to the women's jail at Holloway on October 24th, 1906.

September 21st, 1756

Richard Cavendish examines the career of all-round sportsman Charles Burgess Fry who died September 7th, 1956.

The Mauretania was launched on 20 September 1906.

The Labour party's first parliamentary leader was born on August 15th, 1856.

The Prussians invaded Saxony on August 29th, 1756, marking the beginning of the Seven Years War of 1756-63.

Adlai Stevenson ran for a second time against Eisenhower in 1956, but Eisenhower won the election even more convincingly than in 1952.

The Holy Roman Empire had survived over a thousand years when it was finally destroyed by Napoleon and the French in 1806.