1895 - Kiel Canal opens
1903 - Al Hirschfeld born
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre born
1908 - composer Rimsky-Korsakov dies
1919 - The German fleets scuttles its self at Scapra Flow
1921 - Jane Russell born
1925 - Maureen Stapleton born
1940 - Mariette Hartley born
1942 - Germans take Tobruk
1944 - Ray Davies born
1945 - The Japanese island of Okinawa falls to the Americans after a long and bloody battle.
1947 - Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter born
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the LP record album at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
1968 - The Egg Marketing Board should be scrapped and an independent authority established in its place, according to a report published today.
1970 - Brazil made it a hat-trick of World Cup titles with a commanding 4-1 victory over Italy.
1973 - Juliette Lewis born
1978 - An outbreak of shooting between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead.
1982 - Diana, Princess of Wales, gives birth to 'Prince William' sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital, in London.
1991 - British Gas chairman Robert Evans is under fire for accepting a pay increase taking his annual wage to £370,000.
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