1584: Death of Ivan the Terrible, the first to assume the title of Tsar.
1883: First World War poet Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. He died in action during the war.
1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was set up with Britain and seven other European countries.
1958: The last debutantes were presented to the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
1965: The first walk in space was made by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, from the spaceship Voskhod 2.
1975: The Cabinet decided by 16 votes to seven to advise the nation to vote in the approaching referendum to keep Britain in the Common Market.
1990: East Germany's first election since the Nazi takeover of 1933 ended in overwhelming victory for the three-party conservative alliance.
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