1989
Death of Peter Scott, British conservationist and artist who founded the World Wildlife Fund (now called the World Wide Fund for Nature)

1966

1958
The US Air Force Academy opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado .

1949
The Soviet Union successfully exploded its first atomic bomb at a remote test site in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

1930
St Kilda ceased to be an inhabited island when the last 36 people voluntarily left and were resettled in other parts of Scotland.

1922
WEAF-AM, a New York City radio station, broadcast the first ever advertisement on radio.

1898
Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company founded by Frank A Seiberling with a $3,500 loan from his brother-in-law.

1882
Institution of 'the Ashes' in cricket
1860
First tram service in Europe starts in Birkenhead

1833

1831
Faraday demonstrates electro-magnetic induction

1809
Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes, American physician, writer, humorist and poet, renowned for his Breakfast-Table essays and comic verse

1475
Treaty of Picquigny ends a brief war between France and England
1350
Battle of Winchelsea – English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships
