Birthdays |
1811 | W.M Thackery, English novelist |
1848 | W.G Grace, Cricketing legend |
1918 | Nelson Mandella, South African President |
1921 | John Glenn, American astronaut |
1949 | Dennis Lillee, Cricketer |
1950 | Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin |
1957 | Nick Faldo, English golfer |
Events |
1817 | Jane Austin, the English author, died aged 41 |
1892 | Thomas Cook, the travel agent pioneer, died |
1919 | The Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, was unveiled |
1923 | Women in Britain were given equal divorce rights with men |
1936 | The Spanish Civil war began with an army revolt against the government |
1967 | Major defence cuts were announced, along with troop withdrawls in Egypt |
1984 | Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space |
1994 | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |