Birthdays |
| 1816 | Paul von Reuter, News agency founder |
| 1899 | Ernest Hemmingway, US novelist & Nobel prize winner |
| 1922 | Kay Starr, Singer |
| 1922 | Norman Jewison, Canadian born film director |
| 1926 | Bill Pertwee, Actor |
| 1934 | Jonathon Miller, English TV & theatre director |
| 1945 | John Lowe, Darts player |
| 1948 | Cat Stevens, English singer/songwriter |
Events |
| 1944 | American marines captured the western Pacific island of Guam |
| 1959 | 'Savannah', the worlds first nuclear powered merchant ship, was launched |
| 1961 | The United States launched astronaut Gus Grissom aboard Mercury 4 |
| 1969 | Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon |
| 1976 | The British ambassador to the Irish Republic was assassinated |
| 1983 | The authorities ended Martial Law in Poland |
| 1985 | The South African government declared a State of Emergency |
| 1990 | A rock concert in East Berlin, celebrating the removal of the wall, was attended by 150,000 |
| 1994 | Part of comet Shoemaker-Levy crashed into the planet Jupiter |
