Events: In 1504 the future King Henry VIII was invested as Prince of Wales at the age of 12; in 1678 The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan was published; in 1929 the first Academy Awards (known as Oscars from 1931) were announced; in 1930 the planet Pluto was discovered by American astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh; in 1979 snow fell in the Sahara Desert.

Births: Queen Mary I reigned 1553-58, Greenwich, 1516; Count Alessandro Volta, physicist whose “voltaic pile" was the forerunner of the modern battery, Como, Italy, 1745; Ernst Mach, physicist who gave his name to the unit of speed for supersonic travel, Chirlitz-Turas, Moravia, 1838; Andrés Segovia, guitarist, Linares, Spain, 1894; André Breton, poet, critic and pioneer of Surrealism, Tinchebray, France, 1896; Enzo Ferrari, racing car manufacturer and driver, Modena, Italy, 1898.

Deaths: Fra Angelico, Dominican friar and painter of the Florentine school, Rome, 1455; George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III, 1478; Martin Luther, Protestant reformer, Eisleben, Saxony, 1546; Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter and poet, Rome, 1564; Robert Oppenheimer, atomic energy scientist, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967.