1994 Bernard Delfont, Rus/Brit impresario (Thorn EMI), dies at 84
1992 William JF "Bill" Naughton, Irish/Brit playwright (Alfie), dies at 81
1991 Andrzei Panufkin, Pol/Brit conductor and composer (Sinfonia Sacra), dies
1991 Eva La Gailliene, Brit/US actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92
1986 Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1983 Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1981 Brit team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles)
1979 Brit government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1972 Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireld/emperor (India 1936), dies at 77
1969 Brit House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty
1968 Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
1958 Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer, Brit Open Amateur 1979
1956 Siegfried F Nadel, Aust/Brit anthropologist (Nuba), dies at 52
1955 Vienna Treaty: Brit, France, U.S. and U.S.S.R. restores Austria's independence
1949 Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ and Switz recognize Israel
1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1944 Brit/Canadian troops occupy Hill 67/Ifs/Bras/Frenouville, Normandy
1943 Brit Hume, American Journalist
1935 Gary J Player, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer, Brit Open-1959, 68, 74
1935 William Brockwell, cricket (Brit all-rounder in 7 Tests 1893-99), dies
1931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport and KLM)
1905 Harry Campion, statistician/founder, Brit Central Statistical Office
1904 Christopher W. Bradshaw-Isherwood, Brit/US writer, Goodbye to Berlin
1903 James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1894 Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India, 1936
1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine, 1945-48
1882 Otto Neurath, Aust/Brit philosopher, Foundation of Social Sciences
1867 Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1867 Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit, dies at 85
1858 Johann Baptist Cramer, Ger/Brit pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87
1823 George JD Campbell, Scottish/Brit Minister to Indies, 1868-74/80-85
1780 Brit Maj John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette and Sunday Monitor)
1755 Brit Gen E Braddock mortally wounded during French and Indian War
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