1842: Herman Melville escapes from the Taipi valley cannibals (?)
1914: Tove Jansson is born
1922: Philip Larkin is born
1930: Betty Boop makes her first appearance, in Dizzy Dishes [vid]
1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki
1969: Sharon Tate and four other people are found murdered at Tate’s residence in Los Angeles
1971: Northern Ireland activates a law giving authorities the power to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists without trial