This was only the third time ever Presley had performed outside of the US and it would be the last.ġ959: Prime minister Harold Macmillan and US president Dwight D Eisenhower give an historic live television broadcast from Downing Street.ġ962: Trinidad & Tobago gains independence from Britain.ġ963: Georges Braque, French cubist painter and sculptor, dies aged 81.ġ968: The Move, The Pretty Things, The Crazy World Of Aurthur Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Fairport Convention and Tyrannosaurus Rex appear at the first Isle Of Wight Festival held over two days. On the same day, Elvis Presley appears at the Empire Stadium in Vancouver, Canada in front of 26,000 fans. Mussolini orders the Greek Government to apologize for the deaths of an Italian general and his staff on the Greco-Albanian border.ġ928: Brecht & Weil’s play ” The Threepenny Opera ” premieres.ġ935: US President Franklin D Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents.ġ939: The Japanese invasion army is driven out of Mongolia.ġ940: Laurence Olivier marries actress Vivien Leigh.ġ946: Foghorn Leghorn debuts in the Warner Bros cartoon “Walky Talky Hawky”.ġ957: The Federation of Malaya becomes independent from Britain. Two protestors are killed.ġ923: Italian troops occupy Corfu. 12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome.ġ422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine months on the death of Henry V.ġ688: Pilgrim’s Progress author John Bunyan dies aged 59.ġ751: British troops under Sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot, India.ġ876: Ottoman sultan Murat V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid II.ġ888: The body of Jack the Ripper’s first victim, Mary Anne Nichols, is found in Whitechapel.ġ897: General Horatio Kitchener’s army occupies Berber, North of Khartoum.ġ900: British troops overrun Johannesburg.ġ907: Britain, Russia and France form Triple Entente.ġ913: A massive protest rally on Sackville Street is attacked by the Dublin Metropolitan Police.