1840: Painter Claude Monet was born in Paris.
He went on to become the founder of French impressionist painting, with the term ‘impressionism’ coming from his painting Impression, Sunrise.
1973: The wedding of the Queen’s only daughter, Princess Anne, took place at Westminster Abbey.
She married Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the army.
This was only the second time in more than 200 years a member of the British Royal family married a commoner.
The couple went on to have two children – Peter born in 1977 and Zara in 1981.
They then divorced in 1992.
1991: Michael Jackson's Black or White video premieres on FOX TV.
Controversy surrounded the first edit of the video, where in the last four minutes Jackson walks out of the studio as a black panther and then morphs into himself.
He then break into dance in sexually suggestive ways, smashes windows, destroys a car and causing an inn to explode.
Jackson later apologised for the actions in the clip and said it was an interpretation of the animal instinct of the panther.
1995: A male dolphin who was rescued from Soldier’s Cove the year before after becoming stranded, was rescued again on this day in 1995.
The dolphin, who had his dorsal fin marked with the number 12 from the previous rescue, was spotted by a South Yunderup resident “swimming backwards and forwards and appear[ing] disorientated”.
CALM dolphin specialist Doug Coughran and CALM Ranger John Edwards helped to rescue the distressed animal, taking blood samples and administering antibiotics before releasing it back into the canals, where it swam away.
