Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign SALT II
The second “Strategic Arms Limitation Talks” (SALT) agreement was a ground-breaking arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States.
118 die in the Staines Air Disaster
The Hawker Siddeley Trident aircraft entered a deep stall and plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff from London Heathrow Airport.
The LP record is introduced
The 33⅓ rpm microgroove vinyl Long Playing record developed by Columbia Records soon became the music industry’s standard medium. It allowed for a total playing time of 20 minutes per side.
Napoleon suffers a shattering defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
The battle was Napoleon’s last. The French Emperor was exiled to Saint Helena where he died six years later. “To meet one’s Waterloo” is still a figure of speech today indicating total defeat.
- 1986 Richard Gasquet
French tennis player - 1942 Paul McCartney
English singer-songwriter, musician, producer - 1942 Thabo Mbeki
South African politician, 23rd President of South Africa - 1942 Roger Ebert
American journalist, critic, screenwriter - 1929 Jürgen Habermas
German sociologist, philosopher
- 2010 José Saramago
Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate - 2003 Larry Doby
American baseball player - 1989 I. F. Stone
American journalist, author - 1974 Georgy Zhukov
Russian general - 1928 Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer
