1998
Death of Eric Ambler, British novelist .
1983
200,000 people gathered in London to support a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) protest over the use of nuclear missiles.
1979
The deposed Shah of Iran arrived in New York for medical treatment, having been granted permission by the US Government
1973
Sydney Opera House opens
1966
George Blake Escapes from Wormwood Scrubs

1958
The first female peers entered Britain’s House of Lords .
1938
American patent attorney and amateur inventor Chester Carlson invented the photocopier.
1934
Death of American bank robber Charles Pretty Boy Floyd, shot by FBI agents in East Liverpool, Ohio

1910
Crippen convicted at Old Bailey

1909
French aviator Elise Deroche (la Baronne de Laroche) became the first woman to make a solo flight
1883
New York’s Metropolitan Opera House opened .
1879
Thomas Edison tested the first carbonised thread filament in an electric bulb, thereby creating an incandescent light bulb.

1859
Death of Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer and conductor
1797
Possibly the first parachute jump (by André-Jacques Garnerin above Paris)
1707
Death of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell along with 1,314 sailors when a navigation error wrecked the fleet he was commanding off the Scilly Isles.