Birthdays |
| 1833 | Benjamin Harrison, Former (23rd) US President |
| 1890 | H.P Lovecraft, American writer |
| 1924 | Jim Reeves, American country singer |
| 1937 | Jim Bowen, Comedian |
| 1942 | Isaac Hayes, American film actor |
| 1952 | John Embury, Cricketer |
Events |
| 1914 | German forces occupied the Belgian city of Brussels |
| 1917 | Bathing by Berlin residents was banned, to save water and coal |
| 1940 | Leon Trotsky, the Russian politician, was murdered |
| 1956 | Britain's first nuclear power station, Calder Hall, began operating |
| 1968 | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia |
| 1975 | The US probe Viking I was launched; first craft to send pictures from the surface of Mars |
| 1977 | The US spacecraft Voyager 2 was launched to the outer solar system |
| 1990 | Britons were held hostage at Iraqi miltary installations, during the Gulf War |
