Birthdays |
| 1858 | Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette |
| 1912 | Woody Guthrie, American folk singer |
| 1913 | Gerald Ford, Former (38th) American President |
| 1918 | Ingmar Bergmen, Swedish born film director |
| 1946 | Sue Lawley, Broadcaster |
| 1950 | Bruce Oldfield, British fashion designer |
| 1963 | Paul Eddery, Jockey |
Events |
| 1789 | The French revolution began with the storming of the Bastille prison |
| 1867 | Alfred Nobel demonstrated his new invention, dynamite, for the first time |
| 1958 | Iraq became a republic after the assassignation of King Faisal |
| 1959 | The first ever nuclear powered warship was launched, the USS Long Beach |
| 1967 | Abortion was legalised in Britain |
| 1972 | A ceasefire that had been in effect in Northern Ireland broke down |
| 1989 | Hundreds of thousands of Siberian miners went on strike for better pay & conditions |
| 1991 | The Yangtze river in China flooded, causing much damage & loss of life |
