Birthdays |
| 1770 | William Wordsworth, English Poet |
| 1915 | Billy Holiday, American jazz singer |
| 1928 | James Garner US film & TV actor; TV's 'Rockford files' |
| 1939 | Sir David Frost, Television presenter & interviewer |
| 1939 | Francis Ford Coppola, American film director |
| 1945 | Dennis Amiss, Cricketer |
| 1945 | Martyn Lewis, Television newsreader |
Events |
| 1827 | Matches went on sale for the first time, produced by John Walker in Stockton |
| 1891 | Phineas T. Barnum, the American showman, died |
| 1906 | There was an eruption of the Italian volcano 'Versuvius' |
| 1939 | Italy invaded Albania |
| 1947 | Henry Ford, the man who revolutionised car manufacturing, died |
| 1948 | The World Health Organisation (WHO) was established |
| 1982 | A 200-mile radius naval blockade of the Falkland Islands was announced by the British |
| 1986 | Sinclair computers, who produced the popular 'Spectrum', were sold to Amstrad |
| 1989 | A Soviet nuclear powered submarine cuaght fire and sank off the caost of Norway |
