Birthdays |
| 1785 | John James Audubon, American naturalist painter |
| 1798 | Eugene Delacroix, French artist |
| 1894 | Rudolf Hess, German Nazi leader |
| 1926 | David Coleman, Television sports commentator |
| 1930 | Derek Waring, Actor |
Events |
| 1923 | The Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon were married in Westminster Abbey |
| 1947 | The FA Cup Final was televised for the full match for the first time |
| 1957 | The first ever 'The Sky At Night' TV programme, with Patrick Moore, was broadcast |
| 1962 | Britain's first satellite, Ariel, was launched |
| 1964 | The Republic of Tanzania was formed with the merger of two countries |
| 1983 | Famine relief workers in Ethiopia were kidnapped |
| 1984 | Count Basie, the American bandleader, died |
| 1986 | An accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant led to widespread nuclear contamination |
