Events: In 1872, in the first soccer international, Scotland and England drew 0-0 in Partick, Glasgow; in 1968 the Trade Descriptions Act came into force; in 1995 Bill Clinton became the first US President to visit Northern Ireland.
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Births: John Bunyan, preacher and author of The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), born in Elstow, Bedfordshire, 1628; Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels (1726), born in Dublin, 1667; John Toland, philosopher and free thinker, born in Inishowen, Co Donegal, 1670; Mark Twain, nom-de-plume of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), born in Florida, Missouri, 1835; Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister 1940-45 and 1951-55, born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1874; Charles Hawtrey, actor, born in Hounslow, Middlesex, 1914.
Deaths: John Selden, lawyer who helped to draft the Petition of Right (1628), died in London, 1654; James Sheridan Knowles, Irish dramatist, died in Torquay, Devonshire, 1862; Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist and poet, died in Paris, 1900; Sir Compton Mackenzie, author of Whisky Galore (1947), died in Edinburgh, 1972.