1998
Death of Junior Wells, American musician .
United States
1983
Death of Meyer Lansky, Russian-born American gangster .
United States
1909
Birth of Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer
United States
1908
Birth of Edward Teller, Hungarian-born American physicist ‘Father of the Hydrogen Bomb’.
Hungary
1809
Birth of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher, the first anarchist
France
1759
The British Museum opened at Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London.(Demolished in 1842, but the present museum stands on the same site)
Great Britain
1559
Elizabeth I crowned
Great Britain