1819 - The Peterloo Massacre. The Manchester Yeomanry mounted on horseback charge a 60,000 strong crown who had turned up at a pro-reform rally at St Peters Field, Manchester. Officially there were but a handfull of deaths although over 600 injured.
1913 - Former Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin born
1920 - American Poet and Novelist Charles Bukowski born
1925 - Actor Fess Parker born
1928 - Actress and singer Ann Blyth born
1930 - Actor Robert Culp and American footballer Frank Gifford born
1946 - Actress Lesley Ann Warren born
1952 - Flash flood rips through Lynmouth in the worst flash flood that Britain had suffered in the 20th century leaving 34 people dead
1954 - Film director James Cameron born
1958 - Madonna and actress Angela Bassett born
1960 - Actor Timothy Hutton born
1972 - 'Dixie Chick' Emily Robison born
1977 - 'The King' Elvis Presley, whose singing and style revolutionized popular music in the 1950s, dies after collapsing at his home aged 42.
1980 - American singer songwriter Vanessa Carlton born
2003 - The notorious former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in a Saudi Arabian hospital.
2005 - Flash floods devastate a north Cornwall coastal village after the area's average August rainfall fell in just two hours.
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