1961 Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to do so, collects his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway
1684 Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley
1981 The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
1926 The second part of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ is published
