Birthdays |
| 1858 | John L Sullivan, American heavyweight boxing champion |
| 1881 | Sir P.G Wodehouse, Novelist, creator of 'Jeeves and Wooster' |
| 1905 | C.P Snow, English author |
| 1925 | Mickey Baker, Of the singing group 'Mickey and Sylvia' |
| 1937 | Barry Mcguire, Pop singer |
| 1946 | Richard Carpenter, Former member of the 'Carpenters' duo |
| 1947 | Chris Deburgh, Argentine born Pop singer |
| 1959 | The Duchess of York |
Events |
| 1928 | The airship 'Graf Zeppelin' made its first transatlantic flight |
| 1946 | Herman Goering killed himself by taking poison, hours before he was due to hang for war crimes |
| 1956 | The last RAF Lancaster bomber was retired from service |
| 1962 | Amnesty International was formed in London |
| 1970 | In Melbourne, Australia's biggest bridge, the West Gate Bridge, collapsed killing 33 people |
| 1987 | Fiji was made a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874 |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
