Historical Events
- 1632 Britain grants Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
- 1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag Native Americans form anti-English front under Metacom
- 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India, where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion
- 1756 Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British
- 1783 American Revolution: Battle of Cuddalore, a naval battle between British and French fleets off the coast of India fought before word of a peace agreement arrived from Europe was the final battle of the war
Event of Interest
1812 British Governor Stamford Raffles storms the kraton (palace) of Yogyakarta on Java, capturing its ruler Hamengkubuwono III [1]
British Statesman and Founder of Singapore Stamford Raffles
- 1826 Siam and Britain sign trade and peace treaty
Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901.
Queen of the United Kingdom Queen Victoria
- 1921 At the Imperial Conference in London, V.S. Srinivasa Sastri puts forward a case for the granting of full citizenship rights to Indians in South Africa and other British colonies
- 1958 New Zealand all out 47 v England in 2nd Test at Lord's; Jim Laker 4-13, Tony Lock 5-17; England wins by an innings & 148 runs
Sheila Scott Flies Round the World
1966 British pilot Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman, returning to London's Heathrow airport in her Piper Comanche after a 34 day journet
Aviator Sheila Scott
- 1968 Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Glastonbury Festival
1971 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: David Bowie headlines; other performs include: Joan Baez, Hawkwind, Melanie, Traffic, Fairport Convention, and Quintessence
Singer-Songwriter David BowieFolk Singer Joan Baez
- 1972 Secret Meeting Between IRA and British Officials held
- 1986 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, and Level 42 headline; other performers include: Simply Red, Madness, Ruby Turner, Amazulu, Lloyd Cole, Black Uhuru, The Wailers Band, Loudon Wainwright III, John Martyn, The Housemartins, The Waterboys, The Pogues, Gil Scott-Heron, Robert Cray Band, and Christy Moore
US Golf Open
1988 US Open Men's Golf, The Country Club: Curtis Strange wins a Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes from Englishman Nick Faldo
Golfer and Six-Time Major Championship Winner Nick FaldoGolfer Curtis Strange
- 1994 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: Ernie Els of South Africa wins on the second sudden-death hole to defeat Loren Roberts, after Colin Montgomerie was eliminated in an 18-hole playoff
- 2007 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, and The Who headline; other performers include The Fratellis, Amy Winehouse, Shirley Bassey, Paul Weller, and Bright Eyes
Despicable Me
2010 "Despicable Me" directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud with voices by Steve Carell and Jason Segel premieres at the Moscow Film Festival
Comedian, Actor and Producer Steve CarellComedian Russell Brand
Daniel Day-Lewis Retires
2017 British actor Daniel Day-Lewis announces his retirement from acting
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis
Music History
2019 David Gilmour auctions 126 of his guitars for record-breaking $21M USD, including “The Black Strat,” a 1969 Fender Stratocaster used on Pink Floyd albums “The Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here.” and “The Wall” ($3.975M), at Christie's in New York City; charity auction proceeds earmarked to fight against climate change
Singer-Songwriter and Producer David Gilmour
- 2023 Online personality Andrew Tate indicted on charges of human trafficking and forming a gang to abuse women in Romania [1]
Famous Birthdays
- 1389 John Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, English prince, general (Hundred Years' War) and statesman, born in Kenilworth, England (d. 1435)
- 1642 George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), born in Newsham, Thirsk, Yorkshire (d. 1715)
- 1674 Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (Tamerlane), Poet Laureate (1715-18), born in Little Barford, Bedfordshire (d. 1718)
- 1723 Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist and historian, born in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland (d. 1816)
- 1723 Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian and clergyman, born in Middlewich, Cheshire (d. 1808)
- 1771 Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist, born in St Mary's Isle, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland (d. 1820)
- 1824 George Edmund Street, English architect, born in Woodford, London (d. 1881)
- 1861 Frederick Gowland Hopkins, British biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), born in Eastbourne, England (d. 1947)
- 1887 Kurt Schwitters, German-British dada-artist and poet (collages), born in Hanover (d. 1948)
- 1903 Sam Rabin [Rabinowitz], British sculptor, artist, actor and freestyle wrestler (Olympic bronze middleweight 1928), born in Cheetham, North Manchester, England (d. 1991)
- 1911 John Brightman, Baron Brightman, British judge of appeals, born in Sandridge, Hertfordshire (d. 2006)
- 1912 Anthony Buckeridge, English author (Jennings), born in London (d. 2004)
- 1915 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), born in Shanghai, China (d. 1994)
- 1916 Johnny Morris, British broadcaster and actor (Once in a Lifetime), born in Newport, Wales (d. 1999)
- 1920 Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge, born in Cardiff (d. 2012)
- 1928 David Mitchell, British MP, born in rural Buckinghamshire, England (d. 2014)
- 1929 Ronald Hines, British actor (Not in Front of the Children, Pack of Lies), born in London, England (d. 2017)
- 1933 Peter T. Kirstein, British computer scientist 'European father of the internet' (Internet Protocol,), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2020)
- 1934 Brian Barder, British diplomat, British Ambassador to Ethiopia who assisted during 1984-85 famine, born in Bristol, England (d. 2017)
- 1934 Wendy Craig, English actress (Butterflies), born in Sacriston, England
- 1938 Mickie Most [Michael Hayes], British record producer (Herman's Hermits, The Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu), born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England (d. 2003)
- 1939 Budge Rogers, British rugby flanker (34 Tests England [7 as captain], 2 British & Irish Lions; Bedford RFC), born in Bedford, England
- 1940 John Mahoney, British-born American actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out), born in Manchester, England (d. 2018)
- 1941 Stephen Frears, film director (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons), born in Leicester, England
- 1944 David Roper, English actor (The Cuckoo Waltz), born in Bradford, Yorkshire
- 1948 Alan Longmuir, Scottish pop-rock musician (Bay City Rollers - "Saturday Night"), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 2018)
- 1948 Nigel Morris, British Jazz-fusion drummer (Isotope), born in London, England
- 1949 Bob Andrews, English rock keyboardist and producer (Brinsley Schwarz; The Rumour), born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England
- 1951 Paul Muldoon, Northern Irish poet (2003 Pulitzer Prize, 1994 T.S. Eliot Prize), born in Portadown, Northern Ireland
- 1956 Peter Reid, English soccer midfielder (13 caps; Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Manchester City) and manager (Manchester City, Sunderland, England U21, Leeds United), born in Huyton, England
- 1958 (Beranadette) "Kelly" Johnson, British heavy metal guitarist (Girlschool - "St. Valentine's Day Massacre"), born in Edmonton, London, England (d. 2007)
- 1960 John Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran), born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England
- 1978 Frank Lampard, English soccer midfielder (106 caps; West Ham 148 games, Chelsea 429 games) and manager (Derby, Chelsea, Everton), born in Romford, London
- 1979 Charlotte Hatherley, English rock guitarist (Ash, 1997-2006), and composer, born in London, England
- 1988 Shefali Chowdhury, Welsh actress (Harry Potter films), born in Denbigh, Wales
Famous Weddings
Alec Guinness
1938 British actor Alec Guinness (24) weds British actress and artist Merula Sylvia Salaman (23) in Surrey, England, until his death in 2000
Famous Deaths
- 1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German-British viola player and composer, dies at 63
- 1906 John Clayton Adams, British landscape artist (b. 1840)
- 1923 Joseph Leopold Röckel, German-British composer, music publisher, and teacher, dies at 85
- 1984 Estelle Winwood [Goodwin], British-American stage and screen character actress (Quality Street; Darby O'Gill and the Little Peoples; The Producers), and oldest member of the Screen Actors Guild, dies at 101
- 1994 Louis Benjamin, British showman, organized Royal Variety performances, dies at 71
- 1995 Dennis Gomm, British composer and musician, dies at 84
- 2010 Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (b. 1916)
- 2015 Nazar Singh, British great-grandfather, believed to be Europe's oldest man, dies at 111
- Charles II
- Horatio Nelson
- James Cook
- Margaret Thatcher
- Queen Victoria
- Winston Churchill
