1999
The London Eye was raised into position over the River Thames
1983
Death of Ralph Richardson, British actor .
1979
The Pac-Man arcade game was released in Japan
1972
John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate
1959
Pan American World Airlines announced the first global airline service
1959
Birth of Kirsty MacColl, British singer (Fairytale of New York, There’s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis, Days, etc).

1933
A United Airlines Boeing 247 was destroyed by an explosive device while flying from Cleveland, Ohio to Chicago. This was the first proven case of.
1903
Emmeline Pankhurst forms the Suffragette Movement

1859
Birth of Maurice Prendergast, Canadian-born American artist
1659
Death of Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer and merchant, first European to reach Tasmania, New Zealand and Fiji, mapped large parts of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands