1997
British nanny Louise Woodward was freed from jail in the USA after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to involuntary manslaughter
Great Britain
1983
Microsoft announced its forthcoming new graphical operating system Windows 1.0 (Note: due to delays it didn’t go on sale until 2 years later).
1982
Death of Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader
Russian Federation
1969
The childrens TV show Sesame Street made its debut in the USA
1958
The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by American diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1958
Donald Campbell breaks water speed record
1928
Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan .
1909
Death of Renée Vivien, British-born French poet
1871
Henry Morton Stanley finds Dr David Livingstone in Africa (in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika)
1808
Death of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, Irish-born British soldier, twice Governor of Quebec.
1759
Birth of Friedrich von Schiller, German poet, dramatist and literary theorist
1674
Treaty of Westminster – Netherlands cedes New Netherlands (on the eastern coast of North America) to Britain