The day the oldest man was born
British World War I veteran Henry Allingham, until recently the world's oldest man, was buried on Thursday. The headlines about the day he was born, 113 years ago, give a fascinating insight into life in the late 19th Century.
On the day Henry Allingham's death was announced, swine flu, Moon landings and Michael Jackson were among the topics that ranked highly among readers of the BBC News website. They are subjects which could hardly have been imagined 113 years earlier, when Henry William Allingham emerged into the world.
By comparison, the news on the day he was born, 6 June, 1896, was unremarkable. Yet looking back at the newspapers helps shed light on a world which, in many ways, has changed out of all recognition.
As Mr Allingham set out on his life long journey, fisherman George Harbo and merchant seaman Frank Samuelson were embarking on a more literal expedition. The two men left from New York on 6 June, 1896, with the hopes of becoming the first people to cross the Atlantic - in a rowboat, according to an article in the New York Times.
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On the day Henry Allingham's death was announced, swine flu, Moon landings and Michael Jackson were among the topics that ranked highly among readers of the BBC News website. They are subjects which could hardly have been imagined 113 years earlier, when Henry William Allingham emerged into the world.
By comparison, the news on the day he was born, 6 June, 1896, was unremarkable. Yet looking back at the newspapers helps shed light on a world which, in many ways, has changed out of all recognition.
As Mr Allingham set out on his life long journey, fisherman George Harbo and merchant seaman Frank Samuelson were embarking on a more literal expedition. The two men left from New York on 6 June, 1896, with the hopes of becoming the first people to cross the Atlantic - in a rowboat, according to an article in the New York Times.