Margaret Bondfield
- 1783 – Iceland's Laki craters began an eight-month eruption, triggering major famine and massive fluorine poisoning.
- 1856 – Descendants of Tahitians and the HMS Bounty mutineers settled on Norfolk Island, an abandoned British penal colony.
- 1929 – Margaret Bondfield (pictured) became the first female member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom when she was named Minister of Labour by Ramsay MacDonald.
- 1953 – Two tornadoes caused by the same storm killed more than 200 people in Flint, Michigan and Worcester, Massachusetts, two cities more than 650 miles (1,050 km) apart.
- 2008 – A Japanese man drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians in the Akihabara district of Tokyo, then proceeded to stab at least 12 people before being apprehended.
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