EVENTS: In 1933 Hitler was sworn in as German Chancellor; in 1965 Sir Winston Churchill’s state funeral took place in London; in 1968 the Vietcong and North Vietnamese soldiers launched the Tet offensive against South Vietnam; in 1972 British troops killed 13 people during a civil rights march in Londonderry on what is now known as Bloody Sunday; in 1973 G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord were convicted of burglary, wire-tapping and attempted bugging of the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington; in 1992 the Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey announced that he would resign after being accused of involvement in tapping a hostile journalist’s telephone.
BIRTHS: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman who was a member of the Cabal under King Charles II, born in London, 1628; Francis Herbert Bradley, philosopher, born in Clapham, Surrey, 1846; Edward Martyn, dramatist and co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre, born in Tulira, Co Galway, 1859; Sir Seymour Hicks, actor-manager, born in St Helier, Jersey, 1871; Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd American President 1933-45, born in Hyde Park, New York, 1882.
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DEATHS: King Charles I, reigned 1625-49, executed in Whitehall, London, 1649; Charles Bradlaugh, politician, free thinker and birth-control advocate, died in London, 1891; Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political and religious leader, assassinated in Delhi, 1948; Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, died in Dayton, Ohio, 1948; Francis Poulenc, composer, died in Paris, 1963.