Birthdays |
| 1803 | Robert Stephenson, English civil engineer; built railway lines and bridges |
| 1854 | Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright |
| 1888 | Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel prize winner for literature |
| 1922 | Max Bygraves, Popular singer and entertainer |
| 1940 | Simon Ward, Stage and screen actor |
| 1947 | Terry Griffiths, Welsh world champion snooker player |
| 1947 | Bob Weir, Of the Pop group 'Grateful Dead' |
| 1960 | Gary Kemp, Member of the Pop group 'Spandau Ballet' |
Events |
| 1555 | An English protestant, Nicholas Ridley, was burned at the stake for heresy |
| 1793 | The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was found guilty of treason & executed by guillotine in Paris |
| 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St Helena, an island in the Atlantic |
| 1834 | A fire destroyed the Palace of Westminster |
| 1964 | Harold Wilson became Prime Minister (Labour) |
| 1978 | John Paul II became the first non-Italian Pope |
| 1984 | Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel peace prize |
| 1987 | Hurricane force winds battered Britain, causing severe damage & destroying thousands of trees |
