On this day

Cicero (Marcus Tullius), the great Roman orator, was executed for a series of attacks on Mark Antony.

The original Covent Garden Opera House opened with Way Of The World by William Congreve.

William Pitt the Younger became the Britain’s Prime Ministers – he was 24.

Marshal Ney, Napoleon’s most famous general, was executed for supporting Napoleon at Waterloo when he had been ordered by the Allies to arrest him. of youngest

Captain Bligh, captain

Bounty, died in London.

The Japanese attacked

Harbour, in Hawaii.

Charles Brooks Jnr, a prisoner at Fort Worth, was executed by a lethal injection, the first to die by this method in the US.

Peter Langan, co-owner with Michael Caine of London brasserie Langan’s, died in a fire at home.

Fifteen new safety recommendations were announced following Croydon tram crash. of mutiny the US ship The fleet in Pearl the

USS Nevada on fire after the attack on Pearl Harbour