1431: Joan of Arc was burnt as a heretic in Rouen, France.
1889: The bra was invented.
1940: The evacuation of Dunkirk began.
1949: A test pilot made the first escape by ejector seat in Britain.
1955: An advertising hoarding of Marilyn Monroe with a billowing skirt was taken down after pressure from the League of Decency.
1966: Graham Hill won the Indianapolis 500.
1972: Slade played at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester. Tickets were priced at 65 pence each.
1973: See My Baby Jive by Wizzard was at number one in the charts.
1978: Liverpool became the first British team to win the European Champions' Cup for the second year running.
1985: British football fans were banned from Belgium in the wake of the Heysel disaster.
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