On this day in history '“ July 11

1274 – Birth of Robert the Bruce. He died in 1329, aged 54;

1848 – London Waterloo railway station opens;

1905 – Mansfield’s tram service was officially inaugurated;

1916 – On the Buses star Reg Varney – the first man to use a cash machine – was born. He died in 2008, aged 92;

1920 – Actor Yul Brynner was born. he died in 1985, aged 65;

1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens;

1928 – King George V and Queen Mary visited Mansfield;

1953 – Boxer Leon Spinks was born;

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is published for the first time;

1969 – Space Oddity, by David Bowie, was released in the UK for the first time, timed to coincide with the Apollo moon landing;

1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts;

1981 – The Specials had their second and final UK number one single with Ghost Town;

1992 – Erasure were at number one in the UK with Abba-Esque – their only chart-topper;

1998 – Fifteen-year-old Billie Piper went to number one with Because We Want To, the second youngest chart-topper in history, after 14-year-old Helen Shapiro with You Don’t Know in 1961;

2000 – Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Robert Runcie died, aged 78;

2006 – More than 200 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks on trains in Mumbai, India;

2006 – Snooker star John Spencer died, aged 70;