Death of George Harrison, British rock guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Beatles)

Death of Cary Grant, British-born American film actor (‘Bringing Up Baby’, ‘Gunga Din’, ‘His Girl Friday’, ‘The Philadelphia Story’, ‘To Catch A Thief’, ‘North by Northwest’, and more)

Germany and Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, an agreement to collaborate against the threat of Soviet Communism

Death of Freddie Mercury, Zanzibar-born British rock singer and songwriter (Queen)

Death of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician, founder of the Spanish fascist party, the Falange. (Executed)

Birth of John Bright, British politician and political reformer, co-founder of the Anti-Corn Law League, and a campaigner for free trade

Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian statesman and diplomat

American Civil War: Battle of Belmont, Missouri. A minor battle with an inconclusive outcome, but notable as it was Ulysses S. Grant’s first experience of battlefield command. (He would later become commander of the Union Army, and U.S. President)

Alex Ferguson was appointed manager of Manchester United FC

The first aerial bombing raid. In the Italo-Turkish War, Italian pilot Giulio Gavotti dropped 4 small bombs on Turkish troops in Libya

William Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ was first performed, at Whitehall Palace, London, UK