Also on this day

1671: Thomas Blood steals the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

1955: West Germany joins Nato.

1986: Tenzing Norgay, right, the mountaineer who conquered Everest with Edmund Hillary, dies aged 71.

Jack, telling them their little brother Peter could fly. He explained that parents put bars on nursery windows to stop babies – who were birds before they were born – from taking flight.

The character first appeared in print in 1902’s The Little White Bird, and in 1904 the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, was first performed. It was an instant success. It tells the story of a little boy who can fly and his adventures in Neverland. It introduces the Darling family, fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys and Captain Hook.the play was followed by a novel, Peter And Wendy.

Barrie continued to write plays for the rest of his career, and also adapted the Peter Pan script. He was made a baronet in 1913 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1922.

Barrie died in 1937 of pneumonia and is buried in his home town. Although he left the bulk of his estate to his secretary, with legacies for the Llewellyn Davies boys, he had already bequeathed the copyright of Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Question: On this day in 1386, England signed the Treaty of Windsor – the longest extant diplomatic alliance in the world. With which country?

Last week I asked: which author, born on May 2, 1859, wrote Three Men In A Boat? JEROME K JEROME