1815: Russia, Prussia and Austria sign the Holy Alliance. On the same day, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord resigns as Prime Minister of France.

1820: American frontiersman Daniel Boone dies aged 85.

1867: Tom Morris Sr. wins the British Open golf at Prestwick.

1887: Emile Berliner patents the Gramophone.

1888: The birth of poet T S Eliot.

1898: Composer George Gershwin is born in New York.

1901: Britain annexes the Ashanti Kingdom and places it under the governor of the Gold Coast (Ghana).

1904: Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada.

1907: New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.

1918: Beginning of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, more than 1 million American soldiers in the largest and most costly offensive of the First World War.

1923: The Commonwealth Conference is held in London. Britain recognizes the right of the dominions to make treaties with foreign powers.

1934: The British liner Queen Mary is launched.

1937: Blues singer Bessie Smith died aged 43 after being involved in a car accident while travelling along Route 61 outside Memphis. Her right arm was amputated in hospital and she died without regaining consciousness.

1938: Adolf Hitler issues an ultimatum to the Czech government, demanding the Sudetenland.

1940: The Luftwaffe bombs the Spitfire factory in Woolston, Southampton, for a second time. On the same day, Japanese troops attack French Indo-China.

1944: British and Polish soldiers withdraw from Arnhem after days of fierce fighting. On the same day, Soviet troops occupy Estonia.

1945: Death of composer Béla Bartok aged 64.

1954: The Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru during a typhoon, killing 1,153 people.

1955: The New York Stock Exchange has its worst price decline since the crash of 1929.

1957: Dag Hammarskjöld is re-elected as secretary-general of the UN. On the same day, “West Side Story” premieres at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York.

1960: Almost 70 million Americans tune in to watch the first ever televised debate between the two presidential candidates, Democrat John F Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon in Chicago. On the same day, Cuban leader Fidel Castro delivers a 4 hour and 29 minute long speech at the UN.

1965: The Beatles are awarded their MBE’s by The Queen at Buckingham Palace.

On TV tonight (Sunday)


ATV LONDON
	11.00	Peoples Mass; The Epilogue
	12.15	Science In The Garden
	12.35	Les Trois Coups
	12.55	Intermission
	12.58	Say It In Russian
	13.25	Image and Reality
	13.50	The Grammar of Cookery
	14.10	Close-down til 2.40
	14.40	News
	14.45	The Commonwealth Arts Festival
	15.15	Whiplash
	15.45	Police Five
	15.50	Film: Secret of the Incas (1954) Charlton Heston stars as an adventurer searching for treasure in the Peruvian jungle
	17.35	Stingray
	18.00	News
	18.15	Storytime
	18.35	About Religion
	19.05	Hallelujah
	19.25	Danger Man Series starring Patrick McGoohan as an agent working for NATO
	20.25	The New London Palladium Show Host Jimmy Tarbuck introduces, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman, Peter Paul & Mary, Frankie Vaughan and The Searchers
	21.25	Film: Suddenly (1954) Thriller starring Frank Sinatra
	21.55	News
	22.05	Suddenly (continued)
	23.00	Armchair Mystery Theatre
	BBC ONE
	11.00	Seeing And Believing
	13.45	Farming
	14.15	A Land For Heroes
	15.05	All-Ireland Gaelic Football
	16.35	Auto Auto
	16.50	Dixon Of Dock Green
	17.35	Hereward The Wake
	18.00	Noggin And The Firecake
	18.10	The News And The Weather
	18.15	Meeting Point
	18.45	Sunday Story
	18.50	Songs Of Praise
	19.25	Film: Private’s Progress (1956) Boulting Brothers comedy about Army life starring Ian Carmichael, Richard Attenborough and Terry Thomas
	21.00	Marriage Lines Comedy series starring Richard Briers and Prunella Scales
	21.25	Maigret Crime series starring Rupert Davies as the French detective.
	22.15	News
	22.25	Famous Gossips
	22.55	Labour Party Conference Robin Day previews the conference that begins tomorrow
	23.10	Meeting Point
	23.40	The Weather: Close Down

	BBC TWO
	19.00	News Review
	19.25	The George Mitchell Choir
	19.55	Jury Room
	20.45	Maya Pllsetskaya
	21.30	Theatre 625 Rosmersholm by Ibsen starring Peggy Ashcroft
	23.10	News Summary
	23.12	Late Night Line-Up

1968: Theatre censorship ends in Britain.

1969: General Ovando Candia leads a military coup in Bolivia.

1971: MP David Bleakley resigns in protest over the introduction of Internment and the lack of any new political initiatives by the Northern Ireland government.

Singles chart:

Hey Girl Don’t Bother Me – The Tams
Maggie May/Reason To Believe – Rod Stewart
Did You Ever – Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood
Tweedle Dee Tweedle Dum – Middle Of The Road
Tap Turns On The Water – CCS
Cousin Norman – Marmalade
Nathan Jones – The Supremes
You’ve Got A Friend – James Taylor
I Believe In Love – Hot Chocolate
For All We Know _ Shirley Bassey

Album chart:

Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart
Fireball – Deep Purple
Top Of The Pops Volume 19 – Various Artists
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon – James Taylor
Who’s Next – The Who
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel
Tapestry – Carole King
Teaser And The Firecat – Cat Stevens
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour – The Moody Blues
C’mon Everybody – Elvis Presley

1973: Concorde makes its first non stop flight across the Atlantic from Washington to Paris in three hours 32 minutes. On the same day, Turkey’s state of siege ends after two and a half years.

1977: Sir Freddie Laker begins his cut-rate “Skytrain” flights from London to New York.

1980: A bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich kills 12 people.

1983: Australia II wins the America’s Cup yacht race – the first time a non American team has won. On the same day, cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from the exploding Soyuz T-10 and Soviet military officer Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by judging a supposed missile attack from the US is an error.

1984: A Berlin appeals court clears Paul McCartney in a long-standing paternity suit.

1985: Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya.

1989: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze calls for the total destruction of all Soviet and US chemical weapons.

1993: The US wins the Ryder Cup at The Belfry. On the same day, Alain Prost finishes second in the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril to clinch his fourth Formula 1 World Drivers Championship then announces his intention to retire at the end of the season.

1994: Switzerland bans racist propaganda.

1997: Two earthquakes strike the Italian regions of Umbria and the Marche, causing part of the Basilica of St. Francis at Assisi to collapse and damaging priceless artefacts.

2002: An overcrowded Senegalese ferry capsizes off the coast of Gambia, killing more than 1,000.

2003: Singer Robert Palmer died of a heart attack in Paris aged 54.

2008: Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes the first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel. On the same day, actor Paul Newman dies aged 83.

2012: The Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, south of Damascus.

2017: Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving – the last country in the world to do so. On the same day, fights break out in Uganda’s parliament during a debate to raise the presidential age limit and the world’s second-largest gem-quality diamond, the “Lesedi La Rona”, sells for $53m.

2019: Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so. On the same day, former French president Jacques Chirac dies aged 86.

BIRTHDAYS: Ricky Tomlinson, actor, 81; Anne Robinson, TV host, 76; Bryan Ferry, singer-songwriter, 75; Olivia Newton-John, singer, 72; Cesar Rosas, guitarist (Los Lobos) 66; Linda Hamilton, actress, 64; Will Self, writer, 59; Tracey Thorn, singer (Everything But The Girl) 58; Lysette Anthony, actress, 57; Jim Caviezel, actor, 52; Michael Ballack, German footballer, 44; Christina Milian, singer, 39; Serena Williams, tennis champion, 39; Keisha Buchanan, singer (Sugerbabes) 36.