1998
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
1998
Death of Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist noted for his studies of severe storms.
1998
Death of Alan J. Pakula, American film director .
1997
Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to septuplets in Des Moines, Iowa - the first time in the USA that seven babies were born and all survived
1994
The first National Lottery draw was held in Britain
Great Britain
1988
Death of Christina Onassis, daughter of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis.
Greece
1959
Ford Motor Company in the USA announced that they were discontinuing the unpopular Ford Edsel
1919
The US Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. (As a result of this, the USA did not join the League of Nations)
1909
Birth of Peter Drucker, Austrian-born American writer and management consultant whose wrote extensively on business management topics
1883
Death of Carl Wilhelm (‘William’) Siemens, German-born British engineer .
1859
Birth of Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer
1850
Tennyson becomes Poet laureate