Birthdays |
| 1723 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, English portrait artist |
| 1872 | Roald Amundsen, Norweigan explorer; first man to reach South Pole |
| 1907 | Barbra Stanwick, American film actress |
| 1911 | Ginger Rogers, American film actress/dancer |
| 1942 | Margaret Court, Australian tennis player |
| 1951 | Lorraine Chase, Actress |
| 1952 | Stewart Copeland, Rock musician |
Events |
| 1661 | The Bank of Stockholm issued Europe's first bank notes |
| 1918 | Nicholas II, tsar of Russia, and his family were executed |
| 1935 | Parking meters were used for the first time in the United States |
| 1942 | The RAF carried out its first daylight raid on the Ruhr, Germany |
| 1945 | The first atomic bomb was test detonated in New Mexico, USA |
| 1965 | The Mont Blanc road tunnel, linking France and Italy, opened |
| 1969 | Apollo 11, which made the first manned Moon landing, was launched |
| 1970 | Britain had a state of emergency when dockers went on strike |
| 1994 | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
