On this day - 21 April

On April 21st 1934, a photograph was published in the Daily Mail which came to be known as "the Surgeon's photograph". This was due to the photographer, gynaecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson, not wanting his name associated with the photograph.The photo was reported as the first image to feature the Loch Ness Monster. Since 1994, the photo has widely been considered to be a hoax, with the perpetrators of the hoax having come forward to explain how they built a toy submarine to look like the monster.

The Daily Express reports on previous sightings of the monster, including two of its previous deaths, as well as the boost to the local tourism.

On April 21st 1967 a military coup d'état occurred and seized control of Greece. Their power would last for the next 7 years, under a rule known as the Regime of the Colonels. King Constantine II decided not to mobilise against the coup, and swore in a new government in line with the demands made by the military leaders. This decision played a role in the 1974 vote to abolish the monarchy.