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 |
