1859: Flogging was abolished in the British Army.
1908: Britain's first woman mayor, Elizabeth Garett Anderson, was elected at Aldeburgh.
1911: Neon advertising signs were patented by George Claude.
1961: JFK was elected American President.
1961: Brian Epstein, manager of several Liverpool record shops, saw the Beatles at the Cavern Club. He had heard about them from a customer looking for their record, My Bonnie. After the gig, he persuaded the band to let him manage them.
1965: Capital punishment was abolished in Britain .
1966: John Lennon and Yoko Ono met for the first time in London, at one of the Yoko's exhibitions.
1983: Brewing magnate, Alfred Heineken, was kidnapped in Amsterdam.
1985: Gary Kasparov became the youngest world chess champion. He was 22 and beat defending champion Anatoly Karpov in Moscow.
1986: Berlin's Take My Breath Away, from the Top Gun sound track, was riding high at the top of the singles chart.
1996: Liam Gallagher of Oasis was arrested for being in possession of a Class A drug.
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