1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont born
1903 - Pope Leo XIII dies
1919 - Sir Edmund Hilary born
1923 - Revolutionary Pancho Villa is killed
1933 - Chuck Daly born
1938 - Actresses Diana Rigg and Natalie Wood born
1944 - Adolf Hitler escapes death after a third attempt on his life when a bomb explodes in Rastenberg
1946 - Kim Carnes born
1947 - Carlos Santana born
1952 - Emil Zatopek of Czechoslovakia sets the pace at the start of the Olympic Games in Finland by breaking the 10,000 metres record.
1960 - Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike, has become the world's first woman prime minister.
1964 - Chris Cornell born
1974 - Thousands of Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus after last-minute talks in the Greek capital, Athens, fail to reach a solution.
1982 - Eight soldiers on ceremonial duty are killed in two IRA bomb blasts in Hyde Park and Regent's Park.
1990 - An IRA bomb blows a 10-foot hole in the London Stock Exchange.
2003 - The BBC confirms weapons expert Dr David Kelly, found dead two days ago, was the source for reports that the government "sexed up" an Iraq dossier.
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