1979
Britains first nudist beach opened in Brighton

1969
Death of Sharon Tate, American actress, killed at her home in Los Angeles by followers of cult leader Charles Manson

1945
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

1902
Coronation of Edward VII, following the end of the Boer War

1859
American patent lawyer Nathan Ames was granted a patent for a revolving stairway the worlds first escalator

1856
Death of Elizabeth Martha Brown, executed in Dorchester for the murder of her husband. Thomas Hardy watched the execution and her story inspired him to write Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
