1543 - Henry VIII marries for the final time to Catherine Parr
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter was born.
1817 - Henry David Thoreau born
1857 - George Ohr born
1861 - George Washington Carver born
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Hammerstein II born
1902 - Arthur Balfour becomes British Prime Minister
1904 - Pablo Neruda born
1908 - Milton Berle born
1917 - Andrew Wyeth born
1934 - Van Cliburn born
1937 - Bill Cosby born
1943 - Christine McVie born
1948 - Richard Simmons born
1951 - Cheryl Ladd born
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi born
1974 - Bill Shankly retires from Liverpool F.C.
1977 - Brock Lesnar born
1986: Orange Parade sparks riots and dozens are injured in the second consecutive night of violence in Portadown, County Armagh, in Northern Ireland.
1990 - Boris Yeltsin resigns from the Presidency of the Russian Parliament, in what was to become the beginning of the end for the Soviet Communist Party.
1998 - Three young brothers are murdered in a loyalist arson attack as the stand-off between Orangemen and police at Drumcree.
2000 - The British Foreign Office is severely criticised over plans to back a new dam in Turkey.
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