1979
Lord Louis Mountbatten assasinated by IRA

1968
Death of Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent .

1958
Death of Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize winner .

1928
Fifteen nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, which outlawed war and called for the settlement of disputes through arbitration.
1909
Birth of Lester Young (also known as Prez), American jazz saxophonist

1908
Birth of Don Bradman, Australian cricketer .

1908
Birth of Frank Leahy, American football coach .

1859
The first oil well in the USA was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania

1858
Birth of Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician .

1664
Nieuw Amsterdam becomes New York as 300 English soldiers under Col. Mathias Nicolls take the town from the Dutch under orders from Charles II.
