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Events: In 1995 the result of an Irish referendum was announced, with 50.2 per cent voting for the legalisation of divorce.

Births: Karl Benz, engineer, born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1844; Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, 1940-43, born in Baden-Baden, Germany, 1900; Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player, born in Martinez, California, 1914.

Deaths: Nick Drake, folk musician and songwriter, died in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, 1974; U Thant, Burmese-born Secretary-General of the United Nations 1961-71, died in New York, 1974.

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Events: In 1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon first glimpsed the interior of Tutankhamun’s tomb; in 1983 gold bullion worth £25 million was stolen from the Brink’s-Mat security warehouse at Heathrow.

Births: Emlyn Williams, actor and playwright, born in Mostyn, Flintshire, 1905; Charles Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1922; Pat Phoenix, actress, born in Manchester, 1923.

Deaths: John McAdam, inventor of the macadam road surface, died in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, 1836; Tommy Dorsey, trombonist and bandleader, died in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1956.