EVENTS: In 1944 London was hit for the first time by a V2 rocket; in 1986 General Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile, survived an attempt on his life in the Chilean capital, Santiago.
BIRTHS: King Richard I, reigned 1189-99, born in Oxford, 1157; John Leyden, physician and poet, born in Denholm, Roxburghshire, 1775; Antonin Dvorák, composer, born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia, 1841; Alfred Jarry, Surrealist poet and playwright, born in Laval, France, 1873; Siegfried Sassoon, poet and novelist, born in Brenchley, Kent, 1886; Peter Sellers, film actor, born in Southsea, Hampshire, 1925.
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DEATHS: Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas, poet and satirist, died in Villanueva de los Infantes, Spain, 1645; Ann Lee, founder of the American Shakers, died in Watervliet, New York, 1784; George Bradshaw, originator of railway guides, died in Christiana, Norway, 1853; Hermann von Helmholtz, inventor of the ophthalmoscope, died in Charlottenburg, Germany, 1894; Faisal I, King of Iraq 1921-33, died in Bern, Switzerland, 1933.