1993
The United Nations General Assembly lifted economic sanctions against South Africa following the end of apartheid.
1990
Britain joins the Exchange Rate Mechanism
1974
President Nixon resigns over Watergate scandal

1952
Harrow & Wealdstone rail crash, 112 killed
1939
Germany annexed western Poland and incorporated it into the Third Reich
1938
American artist Norman Rockwell published his famous self-portrait of himself staring at a blank canvas, in the ‘Saturday Evening Post’.
1934
Bruno Hauptmann, an illegal German immigrant, was charged with the murder of American aviation pioneer Charles Lindberghs infant son

1919
The first Transcontinental Air Race in the US began (ended 11th October)
1891
The UK's 1st official street collections for charity, mainly in Manchester and Salford, in aid of the RNLI
