1994
Britains Duchess of Kent converted to Catholicism the first member of the royal family to do so for more than 300 years

1994
US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Kremlin Accords, agreeing to stop pre-targeting nuclear missiles at any nation and to dismantle Russias nuclear weapons in the Ukraine

1984
Death of Ray Kroc, American fast-food pioneer (McDonalds)

1978
Death of Harold Abrahams, British athlete 30.

1969

1957
Humphrey Bogart died 1957 (born 1899). Film actor: The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Key Largo (1948) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The African Queen (1951), The Caine Mutiny (1954)

1949
Death of JoaquĆn Turina, Spanish composer
