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85 years old

The number of cases of typhoid fever at Malton had now been reported to be 235.

The “Yorkshire Herald” and “Evening Press” Fund had raised £250 for the sufferers within a week.

Immediate inquiry into the cause of the outbreak excluded infection by contagion or a contaminated food supply and confirmed the outbreak was water borne.

“Marry the Girl,” the farce by George Arthurs and Arthur Miller, given by the Rowntree Players Yielded plenty of fun at the Rowntree Theatre, Haxby Road, York.

And Mrs Mollison (Miss Amy Johnson) had arrived at Capetown at 1.30pm, exactly 102 hours and 56 minutes after leaving Lympne, thus beating her husband’s record by 10 hours and 23 minutes.

50 years ago

About 200 people waited outside Downing Street to heckle Ministers as they began to leave No 10 after Mr Wilson had announced in a television broadcast that a meeting would take place after the severe devaluation of the pound.

There were shouts of “Resign, resign” as Mr Crosland, Lord Longford and Mr Marsh, came out.

Mr Crosland said smilingly to reporters “Nothing to say” when asked if a full Cabinet meeting had taken place. Manchester United players were to share a bonus of £30,000 if they won the European Cup.

It was the biggest cash inducement ever offered by the club.

Any player who appeared in every round of the competition could receive about £2,500.

And the foot and mouth disease epidemic had resulted in all but one of the Yorkshire motor sport events being cancelled despite dense fog.

20 years ago

British Waterways warned pleasure craft users on the River Ouse to be on the look-out for a dead whale.

The 44ft long Minke whale, which died two weeks earlier after being beached on a sandbank in the Humber Estuary, was said to be heading towards Selby.

According to River Ouse harbour master Captain Martin Stilliard the carcass had turned with the ebb tide and would be heading back towards Goole.

And the row over the choice of music for a Remembrance Day service had led to the collapse of a York church choir.

St Helen’s Church in St Helen’s Square was left without a choir after its choirmaster of 18 years, resigned following an alleged row in church on Remembrance Sunday.