1860 - Annie Oakley born
1895 - Bert Lahr born
1899 - Alfred Hitchcock born
1919 - George Shearing born
1926 - Fidel Castro born
1929 - Pat Harrington born
1930 - Don Ho born
1951 - Dan Fogelberg born
1961 - Troops in East Germany seal off the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East.
1966 - China announces plans for a "new leap forward" after the first meeting in four years of the Communist Party's Central Committee.
1977 - More than 200 protesters are arrested after demonstrations in Lewisham against a National Front march.
1985 - A three-year-old boy from Dublin becomes the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
1991 - The Prince of Wales resigns as the patron of Scotland's national museum over a competition to design a new building.
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