Birthdays |
| 1815 | Anthony Trollope, English novelist |
| 1906 | William Joyce, Wartime broadcaster: 'Lord Haw-Haw' |
| 1934 | Shirley MacLaine, American film actress |
| 1941 | John Williams, Guitarist |
| 1942 | Barbra Streisland, American singer & actress |
Events |
| 1900 | The Daily Express newspaper was published for the first time |
| 1916 | The Easter Rising took place in Dublin, Ireland |
| 1941 | Empire forces began withdrawing from Greece |
| 1949 | Sweet rationing in the UK, introduced because of the war, ended |
| 1953 | Winston Churchill was made a Knight of the Garter by the Queen |
| 1961 | General de Gaulle of France ordered a blockade of Algeria |
| 1970 | China became the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit |
| 1974 | Bud Abbott, the US comedian of Abbott & Costello fame, died |
| 1985 | Israel began the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon |
| 1986 | There was a terrorist bomb explosion in Oxford Street, London |
