1783 - Simon Bolivar born (The liberator of much of the northern part of South America from the Spanish and in who's honour Bolivia was named).
1802 - French author Alexandre Dumas born
1847 - What is to become Salt Lake City is founded by Brigham Young
1898 - Pilot Amelia Earhart born
1900 - Author Zelda Fitzgerald born
1936 - Actress Ruth Buzzi born
1951 - Wonder Woman actress Lynda Carter born
1959 - Russia's prime minister (Khrushchev) and America's vice-president (Nixon) fight a battle of words at an American exhibition in Moscow.
1964 - Baseball star Barry Bonds born
1970 - Singer and cctress Jennifer Lopez born
1974 - The US Supreme Court orders President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.
1982 - Actress Anna Paquin born
1987 - Former deputy chair of the Conservative Party Jeffrey Archer is awarded record libel damages at the High Court.
2000 - Loyalist paramilitary hitman Michael Stone is released from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
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