Birthdays |
| 1803 | John Ericsson, American naval engineer |
| 1927 | Peter Nichols, English author |
| 1929 | Lynne Reid Banks, English writer |
| 1944 | Jonathon Dimbleby, Broadcaster |
| 1944 | Geraldine Chaplin, Actress & daughter of Charlie |
| 1951 | Evonne Crawley, Australian tennis player |
Events |
| 1943 | Jim Reeves, the American country and western singer, died in an aircrash |
| 1950 | Sainsbury's opened Britains first self-service store |
| 1954 | The Mountain K2 was climbed for the first time by an Italian team |
| 1964 | Spacecraft Ranger 7 transmited the first close-up photographs of the Moons surface |
| 1965 | The advertising of cigarettes on British television was banned |
| 1969 | The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in Britain |
| 1973 | The Ulster Assembly, Northern Ireland, sat for the first time |
