1965 Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson) dies

1988 The European Court of Justice overturned Britain's right to determine its own taxation policy and immediately ruled that VAT be added to a number of items presently free of it.
1094 Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury condemns the King and his men with their long, girlish hair and limp wristed manners in their latest dispute *
1886 London Times publishes world's first classified ad