SWINDON...

1947: The first meeting of the newly formed Swindon and District Organists’ Association was held at the Parish Church, Highworth and more than 30 organists attended.

1955: Nicholson’s Raincoat Company Ltd in Swindon was beating the rail strike by having its products flown to the north of England and Scotland for collection and delivery by road.

1975: Social workers in Cavendish Square were left so terrified by a client’s behaviour after she hit a worker on the head with a shoe, that they barricaded themselves in the office until police arrived.

2013: A retirement home in north Swindon adjacent to the Blunsdon Arms was unanimously approved by the council.

THE WORLD...

1381: The Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler culminated in the burning of the Savoy Palace.

1625: King Charles I of England married Henrietta Maria of France.

1774: Rhode Island became the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh received a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City.

1944: Germany launched a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

1977: Convicted Martin Luther King Jr assassin James Earl Ray was recaptured after escaping from prison.

2005: A jury in Santa Maria, California acquitted pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

BORN...

1894: Jacques Henri Lartigue, French. photographer and painter (d. 1986)
1910: Mary Whitehouse, English activist, founded the National Viewers’ and Listeners' Association (d. 2001).
1943: Malcolm McDowell, English actor.
1955: Alan Hansen, Scottish footballer.
1961: Bob Crow, English union leader (d. 2014).
1964: Kathy Burke, English actress, director, and playwright

DIED...

1886: Ludwig II of Bavaria (b. 1845).
1957: Irving Baxter, American high jumper and pole vaulter (b. 1876).
1982: Riccardo Paletti, Italian race car driver (b. 1958).
1986: Benny Goodman, American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1909).
1987: Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924).