1890 - Wyoming becomes the 44th US State
1920 David Brinkley born
1921 - Boxer Jake LaMotta born
1926 - Actor Fred Gwynne born
1925 - Indian spiritualist Meher Baba began his 44 years of silence.
1940 - The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, launched a series of raids on the south and east of England as the Battle of Britain got underway.
1943 - British, Canadian and American troops arrive on the Mediterranean island of Sicily - largely unopposed. Also tennis player Arthur Ashe born
1947 Arlo Guthrie born
1972 - The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland William Whitelaw is involved in secret talks with the provisional IRA in London.
1980 Jessica Simpson born
1982 - Poland finished third for the second time in three tournaments after beating France 3-2 at the Estadio Jose Rico Perez, Alicante.
1985 - French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
1991 - Boris Yeltsin begins his initial five-year term as the first elected President of Russia.
1996 - The battered bodies of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan are found near their home in Kent.
1998 - Robert Prosinecki and Davor Suker both scored as Croatia defeated the Netherlands 2-1 in the third place match.
2000 - One in four British homes is now using the internet according to figures released by the government.
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5m ($75m) to Lord Thomson.
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