SWINDON...

1947: Malmesbury Rural Council asked Bristol Tramways Company to run Sunday buses through Bringkworth from Swindon to Malmesbury.

1957: The Bath and West Southern Counties Society Show was opened in Swindon by the Mayor Coun H Diment, staged at a cost of nearly £60,000, and attracting a record number of entries.

1977: More than 40 motorcyles and a whole gallery of pictures faced shoppers in the Brunel Plaza as Swindon and District Motorcycle Club and the Swindon branch of the National Deaf Children’s Society had set up displays.

2013: Council leader David Renard urged communities to get more involved in making savings on services as the authority seeks to close an estimated £15m budget gap for 2014/15.

THE WORLD...

1660: English Restoration: Charles II was restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1798: United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen were massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.

1919: Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity was tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

1953: Edmund Hillary, pictured, and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay’s (adopted) 39th birthday.

1982: Falklands War: British forces defeated the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.

1985: Heysel Stadium disaster: 39 football fans died and hundreds were injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapsed at the Liverpool versus Juventus European Cup final.

2012: A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.

BORN...

1630: Charles II of England (d. 1685)

1903: Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)

1917: John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)

1929: Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist

1949: Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo) 1956: La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress

1959: Rupert Everett, English actor, singer, and producer

1967: Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1975: Sarah Millican, English comedian

DIED...

1829: Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)

1942: John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)

1979: Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)

1997: Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (b. 1966)

2010: Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)