1834 - Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies
1870 - Painter Maxfield Parrish born
1894 - Actor Walter Brennan born
1909 - Louis Bleriot becomes the first person to fly across the English channel
1924 - Actress Estelle Getty born
1935 - Actress Barbara Harris born
1943 - The Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, steps down as head of the armed forces and the government.
1954 - American Footballer Walter Payton born
1967 - Actor Matt LeBlanc born
1969 - Senator Edward Kennedy's political career is in doubt after he pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime following the Chappaquiddick car crash.
1978 - Louise Brown the worlds first 'test tube baby' is born in Manchester
1982 - Actor Brad Renfro born
1989 - The Princess of Wales opens a new Aids centre in south-east London.
1992 - The Olympic Games opens in Barcelona with all countries present for the first time in modern history.
2000 - Concorde crashes minutes after take-off from Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris killing 113 people.
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