Birthdays |
| 1900 | Lord Mountbatten of Burma |
| 1903 | George Orwell, English novelist |
| 1925 | June Lockhart, American actress of TV & film |
| 1941 | Roy Marsden, Actor |
| 1945 | Eddie Large, Comedian |
| 1945 | Carly Simon, American singer |
| 1963 | George Michael, Singer |
Events |
| 1867 | Barbed wire was patented in the United States |
| 1876 | General George Custer was killed at the battle of The Little Big Horn |
| 1945 | The United Nations was founded |
| 1950 | North Korean troops moved into South Korea |
| 1962 | The death penalty was announced in the Soviet Union for anyone dealing in gold & currency |
| 1968 | Tony Hancock, the famous English comedian, died |
| 1973 | The Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev visited France |
| 1981 | The BBC announced it had to make cutbacks to its foreign language radio services |
| 1987 | The USSR began major changes to its economy to make it more like a Western economy |
