1998
US Senator John Glenn, age 77, the first American to orbit the earth, returned to space in the space shuttle Discovery.
1986
M25 ring round London completed
1975
Yorkshire Ripper' commits his first murder
Great Britain
1969
The ARPANET (precursor to the internet) was created when a connection was made between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Institute
1933
Death of Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, Prime Minister (1917 & 1925).
1933
Death of Albert Calmette, French doctor, bacteriologist and immunologist, developed the first antivenin for snake venom and.
1929
The Wall Street Crash occurred, also known as Black Tuesday, leading to the Great Depression in the USA
1618
Walter Raleigh is executed
Great Britain