1770 – The explorer Captain Cook arrived in Botany Bay, Australia, the first European to do so. 

1838 – The opening of the the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London.

1937 – The Kamikaze arrived at Croydon Airport in London. It was the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. The flight from Tokyo to London took 51 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds.

1969 – Sikh busmen in Wolverhampton won the right to wear turbans on duty.

1969 – Brian Trubshaw, the first British pilot to fly Concorde, made his first flight in the British built prototype. The 22 minute flight left from a test runway at Filton near Bristol and landed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

1983 – English trainer Jenny Pitman became the first woman to train the winner of the Grand National (Corbiere) at Aintree, Liverpool.

1984 – About 100 pickets were arrested during violent clashes with police outside two working coal pits in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

2002 – The funeral of the Queen Mother was held at Westminster Abbey.

2003 – Iraqis pulled down symbols of Saddham Hussein as US tanks rolled into Baghdad.

2005 – The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles were married, in a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor.

2014 – Nicholas Jacobs, aged 45, was cleared of killing officer PC Keith Blakelock at Broadwater Farm in Tottenham in October 1985. PC Blakelock was stabbed 43 times and an attempt was made to decapitate him. The prosecution of Jacobs followed a previous trial in 1987, when three men were convicted of the murder, before being freed four years later on appeal.

2018 – Fleetwood Mac announce that Lindsey Buckingham has been fired from the band and would be replaced on tour by Crowded House’s Neil Finn and guitarist Mike Campbell from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.

2021 – The death was announced of Prince Philip (aged 99), husband of Queen Elizabeth II for more than 70 years. He officially retired from royal duties in May 2020 after 22,219 solo engagements. The Duke was the longest-reigning consort in British history and had recently been treated at King Edward VII Hospital for a pre-existing heart condition and at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital for an infection.