Events That Happened On This Day In History

The Ulster Assembly, Northern Ireland, sat for the first time

The halfpenny ceased to be legal tender in Britain

The advertising of cigarettes on British television was banned

Spacecraft Ranger 7 transmited the first close-up photographs of the Moons surface

The Mountain K2 was climbed for the first time by an Italian team

Evonne Crawley, Australian tennis player

Sainsbury's opened Britains first self-service store

Jonathon Dimbleby, Broadcaster

Geraldine Chaplin, Actress & daughter of Charlie

Jim Reeves, the American country and western singer, died in an aircrash

Lynne Reid Banks, English writer

Peter Nichols, English author

John Ericsson, American naval engineer