1883 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini born
1890 - Artist Vincent Van Gogh kills himself
1936 - American politician Elizabeth Dole born
1953 - Canadian musician Geddy Lee born
1966 - Country music singer Martina McBride born
1968 - Pope Paul VI has confirmed a ban on the use of contraceptives by Roman Catholics in spite of a Church commission's recommendation for change.
1976 - Fire has destroyed the famous pierhead at the end of the world's longest pier, in Southend on the UK's south-east coast.
1981 - Thousands line the streets of London to glimpse Prince Charles and Lady Diana on their wedding day.
1993 - A court in Israel says retired Ohio car worker John Demjanjuk may not after all have been notorious Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible.
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