What a happy day my birthday falls on!
- 1975: London Hilton bombed
- Two people are killed and 63 injured as a suspected IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in central London.
- 1997: Mother Teresa dies
- Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, dies at the age of 87.
- 1986: Karachi hijack ends in bloodshed
- The 16-hour siege on a Pan Am jet in Pakistan comes to a bloody end, with at least 17 people dead.
- 1979: Mountbatten buried after final parade
- The Queen leads the nation in mourning as the body of her husband’s uncle is buried after a day of pageantry in London.