1881 - Cecil B. DeMille born
1896 - Gold is found in the Klondike sparking a Gold Rush
1908 - The first Model Ford built
1911 - Cantinflas born
1912 - Jane Wyatt born
1926 - John Derek born
1931 - William Goldman born
1939 - George Hamilton born
1964 - A massive manhunt is underway across Britain after Charlie Wilson, one of the gang involved in the Great Train Robbery breaks out of a high-security prison in Birmingham.
1969 - The Royal Ulster Constabulary uses tear gas for the first time in its history after nine hours of rioting in the Bogside area of Londonderry.
1971 - Pete Sampras born
1980 - Dominique Swain born
1985 - A Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashes on a remote mountainside 70 miles from Tokyo in Japan.
1990 - A British man attempting to escape in a convoy from Iraqi-occupied Kuwait is shot by Iraqi soldiers.
2000 - The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne is joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service.
2003 - BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan answers questions from the Hutton Inquiry over his report that the government "sexed up" a weapons dossier on Iraq
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