Birthdays |
| 1782 | Friedrich Froebel, German educationalist |
| 1913 | Richard Beeching, British Rail chairman |
| 1915 | Anthony Quinn, American film actor |
| 1923 | John Mortimer, Author & playwright |
| 1926 | Queen Elizabeth II, Head of the Commonwealth |
| 1932 | Angela Mortimer, Tennis player |
| 1935 | Charles Grodin, American film actor |
Events |
| 1910 | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), the US novelist of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', died |
| 1964 | BBC2 began broadcasting for the first time |
| 1972 | Apollo 17 (Ceran & Scmitt) landed on the Moon. This was the last Apollo mission |
| 1975 | President Thieu resigned, as Saigon in Vietnam, was surrounded |
| 1977 | Martial Law was imposed in several Pakistani cities |
| 1983 | The pound coin came into circulation, replacing the paper pound note |
| 1986 | It was announced that Libyan students were to be expelled from Britain |
| 1989 | 100,000 chinese students gathered in Tiananmen Square |
