| Year | Item | Detail |
|---|
| 2005 |
Harold Pinter wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
Harold Pinter is named as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
| 1996 |
Damon Hill becomes world champion |
Damon Hill wins the Japanese Grand Prix to become motor racing World Champion. |
| 1992 |
Thousands of miners to lose their jobs |
President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine announces that 31 of the remaining 50 deep coal mines will close with a loss of 31,000 mining jobs. |
| 1977 |
Lufthansa jet hijacked |
Palestinian terrorists hijack a Lufthansa jet beginning a four day siege where the plane is forced to land and take off from a number of airports. |
| 1976 |
Jet crashes into a street in Bolivia |
A Boeing 707 plane crashes into a street in Santa Cruz, Bolivia killing more than 100 people. |
| 1974 |
Ed Sullivan dies |
American television presenter Ed Sullivan dies |
| 1964 |
Martin Luther King wins the Peace Prize |
Martin Luther King is named as the winner of the Peace Prize. |
| 1946 |
Fourth Republic |
France adopts the constitution of the fourth republic |
| 1943 |
Italy declares war on Germany |
Prime minister Pietro Badoglio of Italy declares war on Germany. |
| 1941 |
Paul Simon born |
American musician Paul Simon is born |
| 1925 |
British politics |
British Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is born |
| 1853 |
Lillie Langtree born |
British music hall star Lillie Langtree is born
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