1600 – The stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in recorded South American history.
1674 – New Amsterdam is renamed New York in a treaty that ends the Third Anglo-Dutch war.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reach the Donner Party, a group who set out to California and got trapped, resorting to cannibalism to keep them alive.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1959 – The UK grants Cyprus independence, but it is not formally proclaimed until August 1960.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart recipient to leave hospital.
2002 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using a thermal emission imaging system.
Births
Nicolaus Copernicus – Mathematician/Astronomer (1473), Smokey Robinson – Singer (1940), Ray Winstone – Actor (1957), Prince Andrew – Prince (1960)
Deaths
Bon Scott – Singer (d. 1980, choked on vomit after a night of drinking, aged 33)
Number 1s
Tab Hunter with Billy Vaughn’s Orchestra & Chorus – Young Love (1957) (The links are not working so here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRr5nwXUYhU )
Frank Ifield with Norris Paramor & His Orchestra – The Wayward Wind (1963) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwbMldf6KS8
Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive (1974) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXok94y3nLg
Kenny Rodgers – Coward Of The County (1980) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK543f0_UKc
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson – I Know Him So Well (1985) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeMk7B46xg8
Simple Minds – Belfast Child (1989) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFIMJxV2tjI
Celine Dion – Think Twice (1995) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rriGtwl1oGE
Meck featuring Leo Sayer – Thunder In My Heart Again (2006) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVuqOzG-TM
Quiz
Q1: What does a phonograph do?
Q2: Prince Andrew is Duke of where?
Q3: Which band was Bon Scott the front man of until his unfortunate death?
Q4: Huaynaputina is in which country?