1994
Sunday trading was legalised in England and Wales

1988
Three Italian stunt planes collided during an air show in Ramstein, West Germany. Flaming debris hit a crowd of spectators killing 67.

1983
Menachim Begin announced his intention to resign as Israeli Prime Minister.

1963
The murder of Emily Hoffert and Janice Wylie and the 'fitting up' of George Whitmore and his subsequent exoneration led to the Miranda rights guidelines.

1963
Rev Martin Luther King gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech at the end of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

1955

1933
A BBC radio appeal was used for the first time to help police track down a wanted man.

1908
Birth of Roger Tory Peterson, American ornithologist and conservationist .

1907

1884
The first photograph of a tornado was taken near Howard, South Dakota

1859
Death of Leigh Hunt, British essayist, poet, editor and literary critic

1839
Death of William Smith, self taught 'Father of Geology' whose map of England was the first ever geological map.

1833
Birth of Edward Burne-Jones, British artist .

1640
Battle of Newburn

1609
English navigator and explorer Henry Hudson became the first European to enter Delaware Bay

1565
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés makes landfall near St Augustine, Florida now the oldest still occupied European founded city in the US.

1207
King John made Liverpool a borough by letters patent
