NOW AND TH 4 AUGUST 1870: The British Red Cross was founded by Lord Wantag 1914: German troops invaded Belgium
... Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist and creator of : Maudie Littlehampton. Deaths: 1265 Simon de i Montfort, Earl of Leicester (Battle of Evesham); 1865 William Aytoun, poet; 1875 Hans Christian Andersen, fai tale writer; 1917 Captain N Chavasse, of Royal Army Medical ...