Birthdays |
| 1754 | William Murdock, Scottish inventor |
| 1765 | King William IV |
| 1872 | Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator |
| 1904 | Count Baise, US bandleader and jazz player |
| 1930 | HRH Princess Margaret, The Queens sister |
| 1933 | Barry Norman, Television presenter |
| 1938 | Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter |
Events |
| 1900 | Allied forces overan Peking's inner city |
| 1915 | Italy declared war on Turkey |
| 1939 | Civil Defence, because of the impending war, was started in Britain |
| 1959 | Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States of America |
| 1963 | Martial law was imposed in South Vietnam |
| 1984 | There were widespread arrests on the eve of South African coloured elections |
| 1986 | A report on the Chernobyl disaster blamed 'human error' |
| 1991 | An attempted coup against Mikial Gorbachev was stopped by Boris Yeltsin |
