In the small Yorkshire village of Horbury, "Onward Christian Soldiers" is sung for the first time

The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould hastily penned the lyrics for a "Hymn for Procession with Cross and Banners", for a children's choir procession this day in Horbury, near Wakefield in Yorkshire.  The music used then was a theme from a Joseph Haydn symphony. Several decades later Sir Arthur Sullivan added the far more familiar music he called "St. Gertrude." The hymn remains popular, if often controversial, up to today.  (By John Osborne)