Birthdays |
| 1927 | Colin Davis, British conductor |
| 1929 | Ronnie Barker, Comedian |
| 1944 | Michael Douglas, American film actor |
| 1946 | Felicity Kendal, British actress |
| 1952 | Mark Hammil, 'Luke Skywalker' in the 'Star Wars' films |
| 1952 | Christopher Reeve, US actor; 'Superman' in the recent films |
Events |
| 1818 | The first human blood transfusion took place at Guy's Hospital in London |
| 1897 | Britains first motor bus service began operating |
| 1907 | New Zealand became a dominion within the British Empire |
| 1954 | 'Papa' Doc Duvalier became the President of Haiti |
| 1957 | The US National Guard were deployed in Little Rock, USA, to enforce desegregation in schools |
| 1972 | Norway voted not to join the European Community |
| 1977 | The Skytrain airliner service to New York started |
| 1983 | 38 IRA prisoners escaped from the Maze prison, Northern Ireland |
| 1995 | New M.O.T emission tests were introduced in the UK |
