1985
Live Aid pop concert raises over £50M for famine relief

1955
Ruth Ellis hanged for the murder of her lover, David Blakely, the last woman to be executed in Britain.

1929
Warner Brothers released On with the Show the first film shot entirely in Technicolor

1923

1919
A British airship landed back in the UK having made the first round-trip crossing of the Atlantic (in 182 hours flying time).

1918
Birth of Alberto Ascari, Italian racing driver .

1908
Women competed in the modern Olympics for the first time (London Olympics 1908).
1887
Second Tay Bridge opened

1859
Birth of Sidney Webb, British economist, politician and social reformer, co-founder (with his wife Beatrice) of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

1837
Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace

1808
Birth of Patrice MacMahon, Duke of Magenta, President of France .

1807
Death of Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart, bishop of Frascati and Jacobite claimant to the British throne as Henry IX. He never actively pursued his claim and was the last Stuart pretender.

1643
Civil War Battle of Roundway Down. The Royalists under Lord Wilmot convincingly defeated the Parliamentarians who were besieging Devizes.

1608
Birth of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor .
