Birthdays |
| 1797 | Heinrich Heine, German romantic poet and writer |
| 1925 | Dick Van Dyke, American actor and comedian, of stage and screen |
| 1929 | Christopher Plummer, Stage and screen actor |
| 1942 | Howard Brenton, Playwright of the controversial 'Romans In Britain' |
| 1948 | Jeff Skunk Baxter, Of the Pop group, 'The Doobie Brothers' |
| 1952 | John Francome, Champion jockey |
| 1954 | Jim Davidson, Popular English comedian |
Events |
| 1577 | Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, on his round the world voyage |
| 1642 | New Zealand was discovered by the Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman |
| 1847 | Emily Bronte, under the pseudonym 'Ellis Bell', published 'Wuthering Heights' |
| 1904 | In London, the Metropolitan Underground railway system went electric |
| 1926 | Writer Agatha Christie vanished from her Surrey home, to be found in a Harrogate Hotel under an assumed name |
| 1982 | At Greenham Common air-base, 1,000 women staged a sit-in blockade in protest against 'Cruise' missiles |
| 1984 | Bucks Fizz member Mike Nolan, was seriously injured in a road accident, and put on a 'life support'system |
| 1990 | The United Nations launched an aid appeal, when a new famine threatened Ethiopia |
