1919 - Heloise born
1929 - Audrey Hepburn born
1941 - George F. Will born
1953 - The Duke of Edinburgh is awarded his pilot's "wings" during a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
1956 - Pia Zadora born
1966 - Harold Wilson's government agrees to increase doctors' and dentists' salaries by up to 30% after fears thousands of GPs would leave the Health Service for private practice
1972 - Mike Dirnt born
1979 - The Conservative Party has won the general election making Margaret Thatcher Britain's first ever woman prime minister. Also Lance Bass born
1982 - The British ship HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentine missile fired from a fighter bomber.Twenty men died and a further 24 were injured in the sinking of the the first British warship to be lost in 37 years.
2000 - The London Mayoral contest ends in victory for Ken Livingstone, the independent candidate and maverick MP expelled from the Labour Party.
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