1866 - Author Beatrix Potter born
1901 - Crooner Rudy Vallee born
1929 - Wife of J.F.K. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born
1940 - Record producer Phil Proctor born
1943 - American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey Bill Bradley born
1945 - Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright born
1945 - Cartoonist and creator of Garfield Jim Davis born.
1948 - Sally Struthers born
1965 - President Johnson commits a further 50,000 US troops to the conflict in Vietnam.
1976 - More than 200,000 people are feared dead after an 8.3 magnitude earthquake hits China.
1988 - The MP for Yeovil, Paddy Ashdown, is elected the first leader of the new Social and Liberal Democrat Party.
2000 - Nearly 80 men (the last prisoners) imprisoned for terrorist offences are freed from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
2005 - The IRA formally orders an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.
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