Cuba was the birthplace of chess grand master Jose Raul Capablanca (pictured) who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927 and was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play losing only 35 first class games in his entire career.
The first Olympic Games to be fully covered by television were the 1960 Games of the XVII Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
The first annual Grammy Awards were awarded in 1959 with the Record of the Year being Volare by Domenico Modugno, the Album of the Year was Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini and the winner of the best R&B performance was Tequila by Champs.
Labour's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945.
The flag of the previous English county of Yorkshire consisted of a white rose on a blue background which, after many years, was recognised by the Flag Institute on 29 July 2008.
The 1890 play Hedda Gabler by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews although now consider the character of Hedda one of the great dramatic roles in theatre.
Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon, which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth catching with the right and throwing with the left hand.
In the Polish legislative election, 1947, the communist-controlled Polish government, advised by specialists from Soviet Ministry for State Security, ensured its victory by vote rigging.
The United States Army Air Forces B-29 bomber named Bockscar on 9 August 1945 dropped the Fat Man nuclear weapon on the city of Nagasaki during World War II in the second - and the last - nuclear attack in history.
Of Brazilian nationality, Formula One driver Ayrton Senna won three Formula One world championships but was killed in an accident while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.
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