1959 - The Auditorium of the new Catholic Institute at Floriana is inaugurated in the presence of Archbishop Gonzi.

1959 - The Caryl Jenner Theatre Company arrives for short season at the Catholic Institute.

1961 - In the House of Commons, the Colonial Secretary announces the agreement reached between H.M. Government and Bailey (Malta) Ltd on the conversion and development of the Dockyard.

1964 - An advance party of five Drydocks workers leaves Malta for Tripoli to start work on oil project won by Malta Drydocks.

1968 - Income Tax Commission formed to study the local tax structure.

1973 - Inauguration of Air Malta flights to Paris.

1976 - Deep sea trawlers begin using part of the old torpedo depot, displacing yachts which normally berthed there.

1977 - An explosion at Mqabba shatters a builder's crane and damages nearby houses but nobody is injured.

1978 - Pork was sold at the butchers shops for the first time after slaughtering of pigs was suspended last month due to an outbreak of African swine fever.

1981 - Departament of Information changes its name to Information Division-Kastilja.

1992 - Malta ratifies the law of the Sea Convention.

1995 - Foreign Minister Guido Demarco says that the Malta is fully complying with UN Security Council sanctions aganist Libya after the Opposition says that these sanctions were being violated by Malta.

1996 - Malta places tenth in the Eurovision Song Contest when 17-year old Miriam Christine Borg sings In A Woman's Heart.

1996 - Kalaxlokk workers get Lm9 a week increase over three years through a new collective agreement.

2000 - Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami launches a white paper on a planned legislative framework on information technology, saying the laws would guard against data misuse and computer abuse.

2001 - The Malta Chamber of Commerce stresses its stand in favour of Malta joining the European Union.

2002 - An international study shows that Malta has the highest proportion of obese children in the world.

2004 - A six-year-old girl who had been kept under lock and key in her room for days is freed by members of the Civil Protection Department. The case happened in Mosta.

1883 - Carmelo Caruana, Historian/Preacher

1920 - Emanuele Gerada, Bishop

1949 - Vanni Pule, Magician/Entertainer

1953 - Arthur Facciol, Footballer (St. Patrick)

1968 - David Carabott, Footballer (Hibernians/Malta 1989-present)

1905 - Fortunato Mizzi, Politician, dies at 61

1984 - Godfrey Zarb Adami, Educator, dies at 73

1991 - Carmelo Scicluna, Judge, dies at 58