Birthdays |
| 1900 | Richard Hughes, Novelist |
| 1925 | Hugh O'Brien, American actor |
| 1933 | Jayne Mansfield, American actress |
| 1935 | Dudley Moore, Comedy actor & TV star, Partner of Peter Cook |
| 1946 | Tim Curry, Actor |
| 1947 | Trevor Francis, English footballer & manager |
| 1956 | Sue Barker, Tennis player and broadcaster |
Events |
| 1587 | English captain Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cadiz harbour |
| 1775 | The American War of Independence, against the British, began |
| 1882 | Charles Darwin, the developer of the theory of evolution, died |
| 1951 | The first 'Miss World' contest was held in London, as part of the Festival of Britain |
| 1956 | Film star Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier of Monaco |
| 1971 | The Soviet Union launched the first manned spacelab, Salyut 1 |
| 1972 | Bangladesh joined the Commonwealth |
| 1982 | The Soviet Union launched the Salyut 7 space station |
| 1995 | A massive bomb explosion destroyed much of a federal building in Oklahoma City, USA |
