1989
Death of Harry Worth, British comedian and comedy actor

1969
Apollo 11 – First men land on the moon (Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin)

1959
Death of William D. Leahy, American Fleet Admiral, personal chief of staff to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, first person to hold a five-star rank in the US Armed Forces

1957
Harold Macmillan was widely quoted having told a meeting in Bedford, 'Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.'

1938
Birth of Natalie Wood, American film actress .

1933
Two hundred Jewish merchants were arrested in Nuremberg, Germany and paraded through the streets.

1933
Franz von Papen, Vice-Chancellor of Nazi Germany, and Vatican Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli signed the Reichskonkordat.

1933
More than 30,000 people jammed the streets of London to protest against Nazi persecution of German Jews.

1889

1871
FA Cup competition is formulated.

1837
Euston Railway station opens – first in London

1833
In Independence, Missouri, an anti-Mormon mob destroyed the printing press for the Book of Commandments.

1545
Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII, sinks in the Solent – raised in 1982
