1. 1940 - The German Luftwaffe launches a heavy nighttime air raid on London and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral takes a direct hit from a Nazi bomb
2. 1940 - John Lennon is born
3. 1959 - The Conservatives, under Harold Macmillan, win a third consecutive UK general election
4. 1967 - Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is killed during a battle between army troops and guerillas in the Bolivian jungle
5. 1973 - Elvis Presley divorces Priscilla in California
6. 1975 - One man dies and at least 20 people are injured in the latest bomb attack in Piccadilly, London
7. 1991 - The first Sumo wrestling tournament ever to be staged outside Japan begins in London's Royal Albert Hall
8. 2003 - Sting gets a CBE
9. 2006 - Google announces the purchase of YouTube for US$1.65bn in stock
10. 2009 - U.S. President Barack Obama is awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize 'for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples'.
11. 2011 - Former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney, marries American heiress Nancy Shevell at a small ceremony in London
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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