1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's first female elected head of government, as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
1972 - Bloody Friday: within the space of 75 minutes, the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-two bombs in Belfast; six civilians, two British Army soldiers and one UDA volunteer were killed, 130 injured
1976 - 9th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
1976 - Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in his car in Dublin
1977 - Sanjiva Reddy is elected sixth President of India unopposed

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1935 - Julian Pettifer, English TV journalist, born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire