| Year | Item | Detail |
|---|
| 1989 |
Sugar Ray Robinson dies |
Former middleweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson dies aged 67. |
| 1984 |
Strike - Miners ballot vetoed |
Arthur Scargill, leader of the miners' union the NUM, will not allow a national ballot to take place on whether to stop the strike.
|
| 1981 |
Space Shuttle Columbia maiden flight |
The space shuttle Columbia makes its first test flight from Cape Canaveral. |
| 1961 |
Yuri Gagarin - becomes first man in space |
The Soviet Union beats the USA in the race to get the first man into space and Yuri Gagarin becomes a national hero. |
| 1945 |
Franklin D Roosevelt dies |
President Franklin D Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Vice president Harry Truman is sworn in as president. |
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