Birthdays |
| 1772 | Jean Victor Moreau, French general |
| 1892 | Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet |
| 1897 | Enid Blyton, English author |
| 1929 | Alun Hoddinott, Welsh born composer |
| 1932 | Dame Angela Rumbold, Politician |
| 1937 | Anna Massey, British actress |
Events |
| 1877 | The two satellites of Mars, Phobos & Deimos, were discovered |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill and US President Roosevelt signed the Atlantic Charter |
| 1942 | Barnes Wallis patented the 'bouncing bomb' |
| 1953 | Widespread earthquakes struck the Greek Ionian islands, causing much damage |
| 1954 | Hostilities in the Indo-China conflict ended after eight years |
| 1960 | The African country of Chad gained its independence from France |
| 1966 | An Indonesian Malaysian peace agreement was signed in Djakarta |
| 1988 | Widespread floods in the Sudan left 1.5 million homeless |
