The Birmingham Six are released
The 6 men had been wrongly sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the IRA Birmingham pub bombings.
Factory Plane Crash in China
At least 200 people are killed when a plane crashes into a factory in China. According to some sources, the plane had previously been stolen by the pilot who was not qualified to fly it.
The leaders of Germany and Israel confer for the first time
15 years after the end of World War II, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
For the first time in history, a dying patient’s life is saved by penicillin
Although some claim that the pioneering trials at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England resulted in the first cures using penicillin, Orvan Hess and John Bumstead are generally credited with the first documented successful treatment.
- 1933 Michael Caine
English actor, author - 1879 Albert Einstein
German/American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate - 1854 Alexandru Macedonski
Romanian author, poet - 1854 Paul Ehrlich
German physician, Nobel Prize laureate - 1681 Georg Philipp Telemann
German composer
- 2014 Tony Benn
English politician - 1980 Mohammad Hatta
Indonesian politician, 1st Vice President of Indonesia - 1883 Karl Marx
German philosopher - 1823 John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
English Admiral - 1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
German poet
