Anniversaries

Rosalind Russell, American actress of stage and screen, died.

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC, one of the Australia's leading artists of the 20th century, died.

Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer, died.

William Cartwright, English priest and playwright, died.

Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, is born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator, is born.

Giacomo Puccini, the Italian composer famous for operas like Madame Butterfly and La Boheme, died.

Cary Grant, English stage and Hollywood film actor, dies.

Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist who has worked mainly with fluorescent light, dies.

Edmund II King of England, also known as Edmund Ironside, died.

Winston Churchill, British Politician, army officer and writer leading the country during WW2 and again from 1951-55, was born.

The Flying Scotsman becomes the first train to reach 100mph.

In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

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