Fernando Magellan set sail from the port of Seville with five ships. He wanted to go round the world, which he managed with just one ship. Magellan was killed while in a skirmish with the natives on the island of Muktan. 18 members of his expedition returned to Spain after three years. This was to prove the assertion that the Earth is round and that the continent discovered by Columbus was not India.
In 1934 Italian actress Sofia Loren is born.
In 1941 occupying German soldiers burnt the first Slovene village Rašica; the inhabitants were evicted to Croatia and to Bosnia.
In 1946 the Cannes International Film Festival was founded.
In 1979 in Prague the Czechoslovakian national hero and president of the country Ludvík Svoboda dies.
In 2000 in Moscow the Russian astronaut German Stepanovič Titov dies at the age of 65. He was the second human to fly in space.
MUSIC HISTORY
1975 – David Bowie is at the top of the American charts with 'Fame'.
1980 - Kate Bush is at the No. 1 spot on the British albums chart with 'Never For Ever'.
1980 - Queen excites America with their new album 'The Game'.
1986 - Huey Lewis and the News are at the top of the American charts with 'Stuck With You'.
1997 - Elton John is No. 1 on the British charts with 'Something About The Way You Look Tonight'.
BORN ON THIS DAY
1959 - Alannah Currie, singer and saxophonist in The Thompson Twins (1984 'You Take Me Up').
1966 - Nuno Bettencourt, one half of the duo Extreme (1991 'More Than Words').