1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli born
1898 - Golda Meir born
1903 - Bing Crosby born
1919 - Pete Seeger born
1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson born
1926 - The General stike starts
1933 - James Brown born
1937 - Frankie Valli born
1947 - Doug Henning born
1951 - The King inaugurates the Festival of Britain at a service in St Paul's Cathedral and later attends a concert at the new Royal Festival Hall on London's south bank.
. Also Christopher Cross born
1968 - Britain's first heart transplant was successfully carried out today by a team of 18 doctors and nurses at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London.
1985 - Greg Raposo born
1986 - A lethal bomb explodes on an Air Lanka passenger jet at Colombo's airport leaving 21 dead and 41 injured. The finger of blame points to the Tamil Tigers.
1990 - Members of the new parliament of the Soviet republic of Latvia have met to discuss independence from Moscow.
2000 - The London Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Boerse confirm they are to merge, creating the world's second largest stock market.
2013 - Keith Rule died aged 64
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