The Spin Doctor: THIS DAY IN HISTORY.(Features)

From: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: July 7, 2002 | Copyright information

1307 Edward I, having conquered the Welsh, died on his way to Scotland to fight Robert the Bruce.

1814 The first authentic historical novel, Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, was published.

1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born playwright of School for Scandal (1777), died in poverty.

1860 Composer Gustav Mahler was born in Kal...

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