1999
Death of Grover Washington, Jr., American jazz-funk saxophonist
United States
1989
The Simpsons premiered on the Fox network in the USA
1986
Davina Thompson had the world's first heart, lung and liver transplant, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge
1983
A car bomb exploded near Harrods department store, London, killing three police officers and three members of the public.
1978
OPEC announced a 14.5% rise in oil prices by the end of 1979 .
1969
The US Air Force closed Project Blue Book, concluding that there was no evidence of extraterrestrials in the thousands of UFO sightings they had investigated. (701 of the 12,618 sightings still remained unidentified)
1968
Mary Bell, aged 11, was sentenced to life in detention for killing two small boys, Newcastle, UK.
1909
Death of King Léopold II of Belgium, succeeded by his nephew Albert I
1908
Birth of Willard Frank Libby, American physical chemist who developed radiocarbon dating, Nobel Prize winner.
United States
1907
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin died 1907 (born 1824). Physicist who devised the Kelvin absolute scale for temperature. He worked on electrical and thermodynamic analysis, acted as a consultant on the laying of a transatlantic telegraph cable, and detected g
1538
Henry VIII ex-communicated