1998
Death of Gene Autry, American entertainer (‘The singing cowboy’) .
1983
Neil Kinnock was elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party .
1968
The first recorded case of live sextuplets being born in Britain .
1968
Death of Marcel Duchamp, French artist .
1968
The Redwood National Park was established in California .
1959
The first episode of The Twilight Zone was broadcast by CBS in the USA
1958
Guinea proclaimed its independence from France .
1958
Death of Marie Stopes, Scottish birth-control campaigner .
1952
Britain tests first Nuclear Bomb
1928
Opus Dei was founded in Madrid, Spain by Roman Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá (later made a saint).
1919
US President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed
1909
The first rugby match was played at Twickenham Stadium, London
1901
Royal Navy launches 1st submarine

1900
Keir Hardie becomes 1st Labour MP

1708
Death of Anne-Jules, 2nd Duke of Noailles, French general .
1608
Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrated the first telescope .
1263
Battle of Largs, Ayrshire – King Alexander III said to have defeated Norwegian invaders under King Haakon IV
