ON THIS DAY

1641:

Britain signs Treaty of Pacification with Scotland.

First book published by an Australian female author, Gertrude the Emigrant, by Caroline Atkinson.

As the aerial Battle of Britain rages, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill pays tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Premier Neville Wran makes AIDS a notifiable disease by ratifying legislation in NSW.

US crime novelist Elmore Leonard dies aged 87 in Michigan of complications after suffering a stroke.

Isaac Hayes, US actor-singer (19422008); Robert Plant, British rock singer of Led Zeppelin (1948-); David Walliams, British comedian (1971-).

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