1. 1910 - King Manuel II is overthrown in a revolution and Portugal becomes a Republic
2. 1919 - Enzo Ferrari debuts in his first race
3. 1930 - Great Britain's largest dirigible, the R-101 Airship, crashes in France, killing all on board
4. 1947 - President Harry Truman delivers the first televised Presidential address from the White House
5. 1954 - Bob Geldof is born
6. 1962 - The Beatles release their first single in the UK - Love Me Do
7. 1969 - Monty Python's Flying Circus makes its debut on BBC Television
8. 1974 - The IRA plant bombs in two pubs in Guildford in England, killing 4 people and injuring over 50
9. 1999 - Two trains collide near Paddington Station in West London at the height of the morning rush hour
10. 2001 - Concerns over the threat of a biological attack by terrorists increase when a Florida man died after opening a letter containing anthrax bacteria sent through the US Postal Service
11. 2011 - Visionary co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs, dies after battling pancreatic cancer for several years
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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