Birthdays |
| 1760 | Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter |
| 1772 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and friend of Wordsworth |
| 1833 | Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of 'Dynamite' |
| 1868 | Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, Inventor of the military tank |
| 1927 | Nadia Narina, South African born, prima ballerina |
| 1936 | Simon Gray, Playwright |
| 1940 | Geoff Boycott, Yorkshire and England batsman |
| 1954 | Eric Faulkner, Guitarist with the 'Bay City Rollers' |
| 1957 | Julian Cope, Pop singer and member of 'Teardrop Explodes' |
Events |
| 1805 | Admiral Lord Nelson was killed during a battle off Cape Trafalgar |
| 1958 | The first women peers were introduced into the House of Lords |
| 1960 | Britains first nuclear powered submarine, 'Dreadnought', was launched at Barrow in Lancashire |
| 1966 | At Aberfan in Wales, a coal tip slid down onto the local school after heavy rain, killing 144 people |
| 1982 | Gerry Adams was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the first Sinn Fein member to do so |
| 1984 | RAF corporal Steve Jones from Barry, South Wales, won the Chicago marathon in a record time |
| 1988 | A Greek cruise ship sank after a collision with a freighter. All 390 British schoolchildren and 81 teachers were rescued |
