1999
The government of Pakistan was overthrown by the military in a bloodless coup. Pervez Musharraf became Prime Minister
1999
The UN announced that the worlds population had reached 6 billion
1998
US Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. (Became law on 28th October).
1984
IRA Bomb Grand Hotel Brighton
Great Britain
1978
British punk rocker Sid Vicious was arrested for murder after his girlfriend Nancy Spungen’s body was found in their New York hotel.
United States
1968
Equatorial Guinea became independent from Spain .
1948
1st Morris Minor Built
1936
Oswald Mosley Marches down Mile End Rd
1933
American bank robber John Dillinger escaped from jail in Ohio .
United States
1933
The US Justice Department acquired Alcatraz Island and announced plans to turn it into a federal maximum-security prison.
United States
1928
The first iron lung was used, at Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts..
1915
Edith Cavell Executed
1908
Birth of Ann Petry, American novelist .
1859
Death of Robert Stephenson, British civil engineer who built many longspan railway bridges, most notably the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, north Wales, and also made improvements to locomotive design
1858
Birth of Isaac Newton Lewis, American army officer, inventor of the Lewis Gun.
1609
The song Three Blind Mice was first published by English composer Thomas Ravenscroft in Deuteromelia, a collection of rounds and catches
1189
Richard the Lionheart Leaves England for the Crusades
Great Britain