Birthdays |
| 1639 | Increase Mather, President of Harvard University |
| 1825 | William Stubbs, English historian |
| 1905 | Jean-Paul Sartre, French playwright |
| 1920 | Jane Russell, American film actress |
| 1944 | Roy Davis, Rock singer |
| 1954 | Anne Kirkbride, Actress |
| 1982 | Prince William, Son of Charles & Dianna |
Events |
| 1813 | Wellington defeated the French forces at Vitoria |
| 1827 | Robert Peel made major redforms to the English criminal law |
| 1908 | The composer Rimsky Korsakov died |
| 1919 | The captured German fleet, at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, was scuttled |
| 1937 | Wimbledon was televised for the first time |
| 1945 | A new communist government in Poland was established |
| 1956 | East Germany announced the release of 19,000 political prisoners |
| 1973 | Nixon & Brezhnev signed an arms limitation agreement |
| 1978 | The musical 'Evita' opened in London |
