1604: Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.

1636: Generators at the Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) began to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.

1937: Brian Blessed, English Actor was born.

1940: World War II: During a night-time air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St Paul’s Cathedral was hit by a bomb.

1940: John Lennon, The Beatles, was born (d. 1980).

1944: John Entwistle, The Who, was born (d. 2002).

1967: Che Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

1981: Capital punishment is abolished in France.

1989: An official news agency reports the landing of a UFO in the Voronezh, Soviet Union.

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