1851 - The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace opens
1904 - Composer Antonin Dvorak dies
1909 - Kate Smith born
1916 - Glenn Ford born
1918 - Jack Paar born
1924 - Terry Southern born
1939 - Judy Collins born
1945 - At 2230 local time a newsreader announced that reports from the Fuhrer's headquarters said Adolf Hitler had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany". Also Rita Coolidge born
1961 - Cuba's prime minister, Dr Fidel Castro, has proclaimed Cuba a socialist nation and abolished elections.
1967 - Tim McGraw born
1973 - More than a million workers join a one-day strike in protest at the government's pay restraint policy and price rises.
1982 - British planes have carried out raids on two airstrips near Port Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands which are currently occupied by Argentinian forces.
1994 - The Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna is killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, near Bologna in Italy. He was just 34-years-old.
2000 - Hundreds of anti-capitalist demonstrators fight running battles with police - the Cenotaph and statue of Winston Churchill are defaced with graffiti
2011 - Former European heavyweight boxing champion Sir Henry Cooper, dies two days before his 77th birthday.
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