Among the Forces’ Sweetheart’s best-known wartime songs are We’ll Meet Again and (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover. His novels include Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) in 1982 Roberto Calvi, who had been the chairman of Italy’s Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1996, as the US Senate’s Whitewater committee issued its final report, Republicans and Democrats remained divided over whether the Clintons had committed ethical breaches in 2004 European Union leaders agreed on the first constitution for the bloc’s 25 members, the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe in 2020 the singer and entertainer Dame Vera Lynn died, aged 103. He had been presumed stillborn until the midwife noticed signs of life. In 1429 the English were defeated by Joan of Arc and the French forces at the Battle of Patay, in north-central France in 1812 President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain in 1840 the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was born. World: The UN-designated World Sickle Cell Day takes place, focusing on sickle cell disease as a global health issue.
Netherlands: England take on the Dutch at Amstelveen as part of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League. UK: The British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Bike Ride, Europe’s largest charity cycling event, takes place.įrance: Voters go to the polls to elect members of the Assemblée Nationale for five-year terms. UK: Trade unions lead a demonstration through central London to Parliament Square, calling on the government to act to tackle the cost of living crisis The Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign holds its annual rally in Sheffield to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Orgreave, a confrontation on a picket line at a South Yorkshire coking plant in 1984, at which 123 people were injured and 93 miners were arrested Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final between Leicester Tigers and Saracens takes place at Twickenham Stadium.įrance: Emmanuel Macron, the French president, attends the Mémorial de la France Combattante, to commemorate General Charles de Gaulle’s Second World War rallying cry to his countrymen, broadcast via radio from London in 1940.