** In San Diego County: Oceanside, Vista, and Carlsbad are sometimes referred to as the tri-cities.

** In San Diego, California, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.

** Team New Zealand wins the America's Cup in San Diego, beating Stars and Stripes 5 – 0.

** In his final game on the sideline, John Wooden coaches UCLA to its 10th national championship in 12 seasons when the Bruins defeat Kentucky 92-85 in the title game at San Diego, California.

** PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California ; 144 are killed.

** Diego Forlan, Urguayan football player

** Diego Milito, Argentine football player

** Diego Luna, Mexican actor

** Diego Abatantuono, Italian actor

** Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Spanish conquistador ( d. 1524 )

** Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter ( d. 1681 )

** Diego Ladrón de Guevara, viceroy of Peru ( d. 1718 )

** Diego de Landa, Bishop of the Yucatán ( b. 1524 )

** Diego Aduarte, Prior of Manila ( d. 1637 )

** Diego de Nicuesa, Spanish conquistador and explorer

** Juan Diego, Mexican Catholic saint ( d. 1548 )

** In San Diego, California, the first sport diving club is started by Glenn Orr, Jack Prodanovich and Ben Stone, called the San Diego Bottom Scratchers.

** Santa Fe Depot, original name of Union Station ( San Diego ), a train and bus terminus

** Mainland: Águila Islet, Diego Ramírez Islands

** The Personal Worth Chart was developed by Handwriting Consultants of San Diego during the early eighties.

** Midway, San Diego, California, a neighborhood of San Diego

** Diego Silang

** Christchurch Castle, a 12th century ruin in the town

** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.

** Hippolita in The Castle of Otranto-Hippolita is depicted as the obedient wife of her tyrant husband who “ would not only acquiesce with patience to divorce, but would obey, if it was his pleasure, in endeavouring to persuade Isabelle to give him her hand ”.

** Theodore in The Castle of Otranto – he is witty, and successfully challenges the tyrant, saves the virginal maid without expectations

** Manfred in The Castle of Otranto – unjustly accuses Theodore of murdering Conrad.

** Bianca in The Castle of Otranto – a gossip, helps characters get valuable news, provides comic relief

** Father Jerome in The Castle of Otranto – Jerome, though not evil, is certainly weak as he gives up his son when he is born and leaves his lover.

** Mines of Titan ( 1988, Louis Castle & Brett Sperry )

** ZorkQuest: Assault on Egreth Castle ( 1988, Elizabeth Langosy )

** Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle ( 1988, Infocom, interactive computer comic book )

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** A fire breaks out in the Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River ; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.

** Jayne Ann Krentz, née Castle ( Amanda Quick ), American novelist

** Elizabeth II describes this year as an annus horribilis ( horrible year ), due to various scandals damaging the image of the Royal Family, as well as the Windsor Castle fire.

** International Women's Year is launched in Britain by Princess Alexandra and Barbara Castle.

** Takeshi's Castle first aired on TBS.

** After 44 years, Estonian flag is raised to the Pikk Hermann Castle tower.

** Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is made deputy constable and lieutenant governor of Windsor Castle.

** Mary Bankes, a Royalist in the English Civil War, who defended Corfe Castle ( d. 1661 )

** U. S. officials announce that a hydrogen bomb test ( Castle Bravo ) has been conducted on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

** Castle Acre Priory, and

** Nijō Castle, a castle in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto

** John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont, Constable of Dover Castle ( d. 1396 )

** Bodiam Castle ( East Sussex, England )