1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest born
1928 - Bob Crane born
1935 - Jack Kemp born
1940 - Actor Patrick Stewart born
1942 - Actor Harrison Ford born
1944 - Erno Rubik born
1946 - Cheech Marin born
1955 - Ruth Ellis becomes the last woman to be hanged in Britain
1971 - Ten army officers involved in an aborted coup in Morocco were executed
1985 - The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa raised triple the £10m that was expected. Wembley was packed with a crowd of 72,000, and TV pictures, co-ordinated at BBC Television Centre, were beamed to over 1.5bn people in 160 countries in the biggest broadcast ever known.
1993 - Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high".
2001 - The family of a mentally ill man shot dead by police in Liverpool last night demands a public inquiry.
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