1998
Libya agreed to send two Pan Am/Lockerbie bombing suspects to the Netherlands for trial.

1998
Death of Frederick Reines, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner .

1994
Arthur Cornhill received the worlds first battery-powered heart in a pioneering operation at Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, UK

1978
Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul (he died one month later).

1958
Death of Ralph Vaughan Williams, British composer .

1875

1858
The first news dispatch was sent by telegraph .
1821
Following its inauguration on August 12th the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, was officially opened.

1346
Battle of Crecy (Crécy) – military supremacy of the English longbow established