1834 - Edgar Degas born
1860 - Lizzie Borden born
1870 - Franco Prussian war starts
1900 - Paris Metro opens
1903 - The first Tour de France race
1922 - George McGovern born
1941 - Vikki Carr born
1947 - Brian May born
1962 - Anthony Edwards born
1965 - The former leader of the Republic of South Korea (and first president), Syngman Rhee, died in exile in the US state of Hawaii at the age of 90.
1976 - British fishermen are urging the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, to secure a 50-mile fishing zone around the UK.
1983 - A gigantic new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London.
1996 - Bosnian Serb President and wanted war criminal Radovan Karadzic is forced out of office.
1997 - The IRA makes a surprise announcement of a ceasefire in Northern Ireland - the second in three years.
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