Birthdays |
| 1819 | Queen Victoria |
| 1836 | Joseph Rowntree, Founder of 'Rowntrees' confectioners |
| 1855 | Arthur W. Pinero, English playwright |
| 1928 | Stanley Baxter, Comedian |
| 1941 | Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter |
| 1943 | Gary Burghoff, US actor; played 'Radar' in TV's M*A*S*H |
| 1966 | Eric Cantona, Controversial French footballer |
Events |
| 1862 | Westminster bridge, across the Thames, was opened |
| 1916 | Conscription began in Britain |
| 1941 | HMS Hood, a British warship, was sunk by the German battleship 'Bismark' |
| 1948 | The USSR stopped road & rail traffic between Berlin & the West |
| 1956 | The 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha was celebrated in India |
| 1958 | The nuclear reactor at Dounreay began working |
| 1976 | Concordes from Britain & France flew to Washington D.C for the first time |
| 1982 | The British ship 'HMS Antelope' sank after a fire, in the Falklands conflict |
| 1983 | A huge IRA bomb exploded at Andersonstown police station, Belfast |
| 1985 | A tidal wave struck Bangladesh, causing much damage |
