1899: Johann Strauss the Younger, Austrian composer, violinist and conductor who wrote The Blue Danube waltz, died.
1899: England cricket captain WG Grace played his final Test match, aged 50, against Australia at Trent Bridge.
1931: The Baird Company televised the Epsom Derby, which was transmitted by the BBC.
1937: The Duke of Windsor, the abdicated King Edward VIII, married Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson in France.
1946: The first bikini bathing suit was unveiled in Paris, invented by Louis Reard, a former motor engineer.
1956: Third class rail travel was abolished in Britain and renamed second class.
1965: The Gemini 4 spaceship was launched, with James McDivitt and Edward White on board. During the flight White became the first American to walk in space.
1978: The Guinness Book of Records went into the Guinness Book of Records — as the most stolen book from British libraries.
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