1938 Chas Chandler born
1938 Chas Chandler born
1938 Chas Chandler born
1904 Francis 'Tom' Baker, physicist and engineer, born
1900 Lord William Armstrong died
1949 Lucien Boullemier, ceramic artist and footballer, died
1968 Jack Common, writer, died
1879 Byker Bridge opened to carts and carriages
1823 Charles Hutton, mathematician, died
1937 Billy Hogg 4 times champion footballer with Sunderland & Rangers died
1988 Heaton-born Ove Arup died
1931 Sir Charles Parsons died
1919 Nurse Kate Ogg died of influenza
1913 Suffragettes set fire to a Heaton Park bowling pavilion