1999
Death of Wassily Leontief, Russian-born American economist and Nobel Prize winner, known as the father of input-output analysis
Russian Federation
1993
Death of Sidney Bernstein, British entrepreneur and film producer, founder of Granada Television.
Great Britain
1989
Sky TV was launched in Britain
Great Britain
1988
Comic Relief held the first 'Red Nose Day'
Great Britain
1983
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was expelled from Bolivia and flew to France to be tried for crimes against humanity
Germany
1958
The US Air Force lost a 3500 kg hydrogen bomb – the Tybee Bomb – off the coast of Savannah, Georgia. It has never been recovered.
United States
1957
Bill Haley and his Comets arrive in England, 1957, in the Queen Elizabeth, for rock and roll tour.
Great Britain
1919
Hollywood film studio United Artists was founded by actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith
United States
1811
Prince of Wales (future George IV) made Regent after George III deemed insane
Great Britain
1808
Birth of Carl Spitzweg, German artist .
Germany