2004
Boscastle Floods

1977
Elvis Presley dies

1959
Death of Wanda Landowska, Polish-born French harpsichordist who revived the popularity of the instrument in the early 20th century

1952
Lynmouth flood disaster

1949
Death of Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (Gone with the Wind)

1948
Death of Babe Ruth, American baseball player .

1930

1908
Birth of William Maxwell, American novelist and editor .

1894
Death of Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist, executed by guillotine for the assassination of French president Marie Francois Sadi Carnot.

1858
The new transatlantic telegraph cable was inaugurated by US President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria.

1819
The Peterloo Massacre when mounted troops killed 11 people at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester during a peaceful meeting demanding Parliamentary Reform.

1527
Death of Leonhard Kaiser, parish priest and friend of Martin Luther, burnt at the stake for heresy in Scharding, Bavaria (now Austria).
