2012 Event Adele, One Direction, Coldplay and Ed Sheeran are among the winners at the 2012 BRIT Awards for British popular music 1955 Event Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence 1945 Event Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender 1943 Birthday Brit Hume, American Journalist 1867 Death Mary, Victoria MALOPCA of Teck, queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85
