1998
Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI’s 10 most-wanted fugitives, was charged with the bombing of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

1998
Death of Frankie Yankovic, Slovenian-born American musician (‘America’s Polka King’).
1998
Death of Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist .
1994
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize

1984
Death of Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize-winning British radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescopes capable of detecting weak signals

1983
British Trade and Industry Secretary Cecil Parkinson resigned after details of his affair with his former secretary were revealed.
1979
The first Gay Rights March took place in Washington DC
1973
Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey
1969
50p coin introduced in Britain (reduced in size 1998)
1968
The astronauts on board Apollo 7 gave the first live telecast from a manned American spacecraft.
1959
Death of Errol Flynn, Australian actor and on of the great personalities of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

1958
Death of Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer .
1939
WWII: The German submarine U-47 sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, killing 833 sailors
1933
Nazi Germany withdrew from the League of Nations .
1909
Birth of Bernd Rosemeyer, German racing driver
1909
Birth of Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Kiss Me, Kate, and other films)
1884
American entrepreneur and inventor George Eastman patented photographic film
1758
Seven Years War: Battle of Hochkirk (also called Hochkirch), Saxony .
1066
Battle of Hastings – Harold II dies
