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RotD: 1st July - First durable colour photograph, first flight across the English Channel, highest-grossing movie franchise, most people thanked at an Oscars acceptance speech, most expensive golf ball, youngest female hole-in-one, fastest mile in reverse

Published: July 1, 2020, 6:45 a.m.

Craig welcomes in July and celebrates International Tartan Day with a colour photo taken in 1861; he wishes a happy birthday to English Channel-flyer Louis Blériot, and actors David "Darth Vader" Prowse and Olivia de Havilland (who thanked more people at the Oscars than anyone else); plus, from this day, a leathery, feathery golf ball that sold for £32,000, the five-year-old hole-in-oner, the fastest mile driven in reverse and the first TV commercial.