Birthdays |
| 1566 | James VI of Scotland & England |
| 1623 | Blaise Pascal, French mathematician |
| 1861 | Douglas Haig, British field marshal |
| 1947 | Salman Rushdie, British novelist |
| 1954 | Kathleen Turner, American film actress |
Events |
| 1917 | Women over the age of 30 got the vote in Britain |
| 1919 | The captured German fleet was destroyed at Scapa Flow, Shetland |
| 1937 | J.M Barrie, the Scottish author of 'Peter Pan', died |
| 1961 | The United Kingdom gave up control of Kuwait |
| 1963 | Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space |
| 1970 | Edward Heath became PM, when the Conservative Party won the General Election |
| 1978 | OPEC agreed not to increase oil prices until end of the year |
| 1985 | The airport in Frankfurt, Germany, was bombed by terrorists |
