Birthdays |
| 1887 | Field Marshall Viscount Montgomery of Alamein |
| 1924 | Sir Charles Mackerras, Chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra |
| 1925 | Rock Hudson, American film and television superstar |
| 1937 | Peter Cook, Writer and comedian; partner to Dudley Moore |
| 1939 | Auberon Waugh, English writer and journalist |
| 1942 | Bob Gaudio, Of the Pop group 'The Four Seasons' |
| 1942 | Martin Scorsese, American film director |
Events |
| 1558 | Queen Mary I, known as 'Bloody Mary', died in St James's Palace London; succeeded by Elizabeth I |
| 1800 | The United States Congress met for the first time |
| 1869 | An Englishman, James Moore, won the first cycle race from Paris to Rouen |
| 1869 | After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal was opened |
| 1917 | Auguste Rodin, the French sculptor of 'The Kiss' & 'The Thinker', died at Meudon near Paris |
| 1955 | Anglesey in North Wales became the first authority in Britain to introduce fluoride into the drinking water |
| 1997 | First user friendly cartoon |
