Birthdays |
| 1832 | Edouard Manet, French artist |
| 1899 | Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls for 20 years |
| 1903 | Randolph Scott, American film actor |
| 1919 | Bob Paisley, Former manager of Liverpool FC |
| 1950 | Patrick Simmons, Of the 'Doobie Brothers' |
| 1957 | Princess Caroline of Monaco |
Events |
| 1556 | An earthquake in Shensi Province, China, killed 830,000 people |
| 1571 | The Royal Exchange, in London, was founded |
| 1931 | The Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova died at her Hampstead Heath home, aged 49 |
| 1943 | British forces captured the city of Tripoli, Libya, from the Germans |
| 1963 | Kim Philby, the double agent, defected to Russia |
| 1985 | A House of Lords debate was televised for the first time |
| 1990 | Gales of up to 115mph caused much damage, and four people were killed |
| 1991 | During the Gulf War, virtually all of Iraqs radar & runway facilities had been destroyed |
