Events: In 1651 Charles II fled to France after his defeat by Oliver Cromwell at Worcester; in 1855 a steel-making process was patented by Sir Harry Bessemer; in 1956 the Queen opened Calder Hall, Britain’s first nuclear power station; in 1973 Arab oil producers increased prices and cut back production in response to US support of Israel in the Yom Kippur war; in 1997 Che Guevara was finally buried in a mausoleum in Cuba 30 years after he was killed in Bolivia; in 1998 the former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, was arrested in London after an extradition request from Spain.
Births: John Wilkes, political reformer, London, 1727; Georg B?chner, dramatist, Goddelau, Germany, 1813; Herbert Howells, composer of choral works, Lydney, 1892; Nathanael West, novelist, New