1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

1933 – Sir Frederick Henry Royce, co-founder of the English car company Rolls-Royce, died.

1943 – Britain discontinued printing £1,000 notes.

1945 – World War II – After learning that Soviet forces had taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admitted defeat in his underground bunker and stated that suicide was his only recourse.

1964 – British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned by the Russians for spying, was swapped for the Russian spy Gordon Lonsdale, who was jailed by the British for his role in an espionage ring in 1961.

1969 – British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston sailed into Falmouth Harbour, completing the first non-stop solo voyage around the world. He was at sea for 312 days. His yacht was named Suhaili which means “good wind”.

1972 – Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax became the first people to row across the Pacific Ocean (the world’s largest ocean). They arrived in Australia in their boat Britannia after being at sea for 362 days.

1996 – Diana, Princess of Wales personally attended a five-hour heart transplant operation on a young boy at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex.

2000 – The Big Number Change took place. It was an update of telephone dialling codes in Britain in response to the rapid growth of telecommunications and the impending exhaustion of numbers.

2013 – Police confirmed that the search for missing five-year-old April Jones from Machynlleth, Powys had ended, after almost seven months of searching. Mark Bridger denied abducting and murdering April as well as intending to pervert the course of justice but was jailed on 30th May 2013.

2014 – David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United.

2014 – The Conservative party declared that local residents would get new powers to block all new onshore wind farms within six months of a new Conservative government taking office in May 2015. They further promised that no subsidies would be paid to operators of new onshore wind turbines.