Today
Events: In 1972 at the Olympic Games in Munich Palestinian terrorists killed two members of the Israeli team and took nine more hostage.
Births: Louis XIV, King of France 1643-1715, 1638; Caspar Friedrich, German painter, 1774; John Wisden, cricketer, 1826; Jesse James, outlaw, 1847; Russell Harty, broadcaster, 1934; Freddie Mercury, singer and songwriter, 1946.
Deaths: John Home, poet and dramatist, 1808; William McGillivray, naturalist, 1852; Sir Douglas Bader, Second World War fighter pilot, 1982; Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, 1997; Sir Georg Solti, Hungarian-born British conductor, 1997.
Tomorrow
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Events: In 1522 Juan Sebastian Del Cano completed the first circumnavigation of the world; in 1666 the Great Fire of London was finally extinguished; in 1968 Swaziland gained its independence.
Births: Marie-Joseph, Marquis de Lafayette, statesman and soldier, 1757; John Dalton, chemist, 1766; Sir Walford Davies, composer, 1869; John James Macleod, pioneer of insulin, 1876.
Deaths: Jean Baptiste Colbert, statesman, 1683; George Alexander Stevens, dramatist and song writer, 1784; Arthur Rackham, illustrator, 1939; Gertrude Lawrence, actress, 1952; Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa 1958-1966, responsible for the institution of apartheid, 1966.