1988
Birth of Princess Beatrice, first child of the Duke and Duchess of York .

1983
Twenty-two members of the IRA were jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years in one of Northern Ireland’s biggest ‘supergrass’ mass trials.

1963
The Great Train Robbery when £2.6 million was stolen from the Glasgow-London mail train

1949
Bhutan became independent from India

1929
The German airship Graf Zeppelin began a 12-day round-the-world flight

1908
American aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright made his first public flight at a racecourse in Le Mans, France.

1827
Death of George Canning, British Prime Minister

1759
Death of Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer of operas & sacred music

1637
Death of Ben Jonson, poet and playwright
