Birthdays |
| 1819 | Walt Whitman, American poet |
| 1872 | William Heath Robinson, English illustrator |
| 1922 | Denholm Elliot, English born actor |
| 1930 | Clint Eastwood, American film actor/director |
| 1939 | Terry Waite, Former Archbishop of Canterbury envoy |
| 1965 | Brooke Shields, American film actress |
| 1980 | Don Ameche, American film actor |
Events |
| 1837 | Joseph Grimaldi, the famous English clown, died |
| 1900 | The Boxer rebellion in China broke out |
| 1902 | The Boer war, in South Africa, ended |
| 1906 | German chemists produced fertiliser from lime for the first time |
| 1910 | The formation of the Girl Guides was announced |
| 1916 | The naval battle of Jutland began, between the British & German navies |
| 1931 | A Swiss balloonist reached a record height of 52,462 feet |
| 1961 | South Africa became an independent republic |
| 1990 | The Soviet Legislature was televised for the first time |
| 1994 | South Africa rejoined the Commonwealth |
