Princess Diana on a royal visit for the official opening of the community centre on Whitehall Road, Bristol in May 1987

• 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols, regarded as the first victim of Jack the Ripper, found dead
• 1897 – Edison patented the Kinetograph
• 1935 – FDR signs the Neutrality Act
• 1939 – Germany prepares for the invasion of Poland
• 1955 – William Cobb demonstrated the first solar-powered car
• 1997 – Princes Diana died in a car crash
• 2006 – Iran defied a U.N. deadline to stop enriching uranium
• 2010 – Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki marks the end to Iraq combat mission by U.S.

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