1988
Former Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda were indicted by a federal grand jury in New York on charges of fraud and.
1984
Death of François Truffaut, French film director, screenwriter and actor, one of the chief founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking
1983
The 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures defined the metre as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1 / 299,792,458 of a second.
1969
Death of Jack Kerouac, American poet and novelist, leader of the Beat movement
1966
Aberfan disaster – slag heap slip kills 144, incl. 116 children
1959
The Guggenheim Museum in New York opened to the public
1939
WWII: Conscription in Britain was extended to cover all able-bodied men between the ages of 20 and 23
1907
George Frederick Bodley died 1907 (born 1827). Influential architect of churches reflecting Anglo-Catholic practice in the Church of England. Notable churches include St Augustine, Pendlebury, designed in 1870; Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffordshire (1872
1858
The first performance of Offenbach’s opera ‘Orpheus in the Underworld’, Paris.
1805
Death of Lord Nelson and victory at the Battle of Trafalgar