1746: The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. The resulting Hanoverian victory decisively halts the Jacobite intent to overthrow the House of Hanover and restore the House of Stuart to the British throne.
In 1912, American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first female pilot to fly across the English Channel. She left England in a 50-hp monoplane lent to her by Louis Blériot. She headed for France in a plane she had never flown before and a compass she had just learned how to use. Despite poor visibility and fog, Quimby landed 59 minutes later near Hardelot, France.
Upon landing, she was greeted by the local residents, but the Titanic sinking limited reporting of Quimby's achievement in the world press.
She died the same year, on 1 Jul 1912, when she lost control of her plane at a flying exhibition near Quincy, Mass.
She was the first American woman to become a licensed pilot, but her career as a pilot lasted a mere 11 months.
1919Gandhi organized a day of 'prayer and fasting' in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British. Official Government of India sources estimated the fatalities at 379, with 1,100 wounded, many of them women and children.
1945: The United States Army liberates Colditz Castle in Saxony which is being used as a Nazi high security prisoner-of-war camp. Among its more notable inmates are British fighter ace Douglas Bader and Pat Reid, who would bring Colditz to public attention in his post war books
1953Queen Elizabeth II launched the Royal Yacht Britannia at Clydeside. She was used by the British Royal Family for state visits and diplomatic missions for the next 45 years and is now permanently moored as an exhibition ship at Ocean Terminal, Leith - Edinburgh.
In 1956, a radio made to run either on batteries or solar-cell power was first sold in the U.S. The Sun Power Pak was made by the Admiral Corporation, Chicago, Ill. By using six transistors instead of vacuum tubes, the radio needed so little electricity that with six ordinary flashlight batteries it could give 700 to 1,000 hours of use. The $60 radio was small (about 3 x 9 x 10 in.) and weighed only 5.25 pounds. The $185 auxillary Sun Power Pak provided electrical power from sunlight using a silicon "solar cell element
.Music1964: The Rolling Stones release their self-titled debut album. Recorded at Regent Sound Studios in London over the course of five days, it would top the UK album charts two weeks later and stay on the chart for 40 weeks.
On 16th April 2006 the first Welsh International Harp Festival opened at Caernarfon, featuring a wide range of music played on different types of harp, including Triple harps, Celtic harps, African Kora and Ku-cheng from China. The harp originated in Mesopotamia and the instrument has been adopted by cultures throughout the world in a variety of forms, but in Wales there are more harps per head of population than anywhere else and it is considered to be our national instrument. [media=https://youtu.be/OipY4ZrSG9U] (Ar Hyd y Nos)
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