"Sallie Gardner at a Gallop" (animated)
- 1215 – King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it gallops (animation pictured); the study became the basis of motion pictures.
- 1919 – After nearly 16 hours, the Vickers Vimy flown by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed in County Galway, Ireland, to complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight.
- 1954 – The Union of European Football Associations, the administrative and controlling body for European football, was founded in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1996 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in the commercial centre of Manchester, England, injuring more than 200 people and causing widespread damage to buildings.
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