Birthdays |
| 1819 | Abner Doubleday, Publisher |
| 1824 | William Thomson/Lord Kelvin, Physicist |
| 1892 | Pearl Buck, American novelist |
| 1898 | Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer |
| 1904 | Peter Lorre, American film actor |
| 1914 | Laurie Lee, Author |
| 1924 | Syd Lawrence, Bandleader |
| 1943 | Georgie Fame, Singer/songwriter |
Events |
| 1830 | King George IV of England & Ireland died |
| 1906 | The Victoria & Albert museum was opened |
| 1906 | The first ever Grand Prix was held at Le Mans |
| 1959 | The St Lawrence Seaway, Canada, was officially opened |
| 1975 | Indira Gandhi was convicted of election fraud |
| 1978 | A terrorist bomb caused damage at the palace of Versaille, France |
| 1978 | The first dedicated oceanographic satellite was launched |
| 1990 | Europe began to study ways into financially helping the USSR |
