Birthdays |
| 1848 | Arthur Balfour, British statesman |
| 1894 | Walter Brennan, American film actor/Oscar winner |
| 1930 | Annie Ross, British singer |
| 1937 | Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist |
| 1948 | Steve Goodman, American songwriter |
| 1954 | Walter Payton, Former 'Chicago Bears' player |
Events |
| 1834 | Samuel Coolridge, the English poet, died |
| 1909 | Louis Bleriot became the first man to cross the Channel by aeroplane |
| 1943 | Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, was forced to resign |
| 1957 | Tunisia, North Africa, became an independent republic |
| 1978 | The first ever 'test tube baby', Louise Brown, was born in Britain |
| 1981 | The American spacecraft Voyager 2 reached the planet Saturn |
| 1984 | A soviet cosmonaut became the first woman to walk in space |
