** Sir Morris Finer's Report of the Committee on One-Parent Families ( 1974 )

* By Sir Joshua Reynolds **

** Sir Joshua Reynolds, by Estelle M. Hurll, from Project Gutenberg

** Harold Wilson becomes British Prime Minister after leading the Labour Party to a narrow election win over the Tory government of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during that time.

** Sir Dirk Bogarde, English actor ( b. 1921 )

** Sir Eric Willis, Australian politician, former Premier of New South Wales ( b. 1922 )

** Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician

** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )

** Sir John Lavery, Irish artist ( b. 1856 )

** Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor ( b. 1879 )

** Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist

** Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says that Royal Navy ships will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland.

** Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer ( d. 2000 )

** A crowd assaults the rally of Sir Oswald Mosley's right-wing Union Movement in London.

** Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower

** Sir Michael Epstein, British medical researcher

** Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English film director, producer, and writer ( b. 1900 )

** Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor ( b. 1895 )

** Sir Arthur Elton, pioneer of the British documentary film industry ( b. 1906 )

** Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam and commissions Malcolm Fraser as Prime Minister.

** Falklands War: British RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks

** Sir Charles Lyell, British geologist ( b. 1797 )

** Sir Richard O ' Connor, English general ( b. 1889 )

** Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister ( b. 1923 )

** Executive chairman – the chairman's post may also exist as an office separate from that of CEO, and it is considered an executive chairman if that titleholder wields influence over company operations, such as Steve Case of AOL Time Warner and Douglas Flint of HSBC.

** Versions of the electronic edition of Evelyn-White's English translation edited by Douglas B. Killings, June 1995:

** Douglas Wilson, American television personality and interior designer

** Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.

** U. S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.

** The U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U. S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U. S. President Harry S Truman.

** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.

** Suzzanne Douglas, American actress

** WWII ends: The final official surrender of Japan is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General Douglas MacArthur, and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz for the United States, and delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, China, and others from a Japanese delegation led by Mamoru Shigemitsu, on board the American battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

** James Douglas " Jim " Morrison, American rock musician ( The Doors ) ( d. 1971 )

** WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U. S. forces in the Philippines ; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.

** At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 ( a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 ) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 ( a Boeing 727 ) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crewmembers on Flight 1482.

** A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner ( Swissair Flight 111 ) crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en-route to Geneva ; all 229 people on board are killed.

** Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer ( b. 1890 )

** Laura Welch ( later Bush ) causes a car accident that results in the death of Michael Dutton Douglas in her hometown of Midland, Texas.

** Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes into a wooded hillside after taking-off from Dorval International Airport near Montreal, killing all on board ( the worst air disaster for many years in Canada's history ).

** Douglas Coupland, Canadian author

** Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace ( d. 1990 )

** Douglas Booth, English actor

** Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

** Jerry Douglas, American dobro player

** Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born union leader ( d. 2008 )

** Douglas Kennedy, American actor ( d. 1973 )

** Douglas Fairbanks, American actor ( d. 1939 )