Birthdays |
| 1886 | Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, of the deep frozen food process |
| 1909 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor of stage and screen |
| 1916 | Kirk Douglas, Veteran Hollywood superstar, appearing in many epics |
| 1934 | Dame Judi Dench, Popular stage and screen actress |
| 1942 | Billy Bremner, Former Leeds football player & captain of Scottland |
| 1950 | Joan Armatrading, British singer/songwriter |
| 1953 | Jill Saward, Of the Pop group 'Shakatak' |
| 1957 | Donny Osmond, Singer, both as soloist & with 'The Osmonds' |
Events |
| 1868 | Gladstone became British Prime Minister for the first time. He eventually held the post for a further, three terms |
| 1903 | The Norwegian government refused a proposal to give women the vote |
| 1955 | Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olsen to regain his world middleweight boxing title |
| 1960 | Granada Television's long running 'soap', Coronation Street, was first televised |
| 1964 | Poet and author Dame Edith Sitwell, sister of the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, died |
| 1982 | Steven Spielberg's science fiction film E.T. was first shown in Britain |
| 1982 | The country and western star, Marty Robbins, died of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee |
| 1990 | In Poland, Lech Walesa won a landslide victory in the Presidential elections |
