1779 - Spain declare war on Great Britain over Gibraltar
1890 - Stan Laurel born
1903 - The Ford motor company was founded.
1916 - Lord Kitchener killed
1937 - Erich Segal born
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates born
1943 - Joan Van Ark born
1963 - A former textile worker from the Soviet Union has become the first woman in space. Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, 26, was the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit when her spaceship Vostok VI was launched at 1230 Moscow time.
1971 - Tupac Shakur born
1976 - At least 12 people are reported to have been killed in a series of violent clashes between black demonstrators and police in several South African townships.
1982 - The South Wales coalfield has come to a standstill after about 24,000 miners went on strike in support of health service workers, who are demanding a 12% pay rise. Also Bryan Robson score the fastest goal to date in the World Cup finals. It took only 27 - seconds to put the ball in the back of the net against France in Spain.
1989 - Former Communist prime minister Imre Nagy, the man who symbolises the 1956 Hungarian uprising, has been given a formal public funeral 31 years after he was executed.
1992 - An explosive new book about the Princess of Wales, including claims she attempted suicide, is published by author Andrew Morton.
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