1871 - Aviator Orville Wright born
1902 - Poet Ogden Nash born
1919 - Publisher Malcolm Forbes born
1921 - Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry born
1931 - American jockey Willie Shoemaker born
1940 - Actress Jill St. John born
1942 - A total of 3,623 of the 6,086 men who made it ashore are either killed, wounded, or captured (almost 60%)during the 'Battle of Dieppe'.
1944 - Conductor Sir Henry Wood dies
1946 - Former U.S. president Bill Clinton born
1951 - Queen bass guitarist John Deacon born
1955 - Actor Peter Gallagher born
1956 - Actor Adam Arkin born
1960 - The United States pilot, Francis Gary Powers, is sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Soviet military court.
1966 - American country music singer LeAnn Womack born
1969 - Actor Matthew Perry born
1975 - Campaigners calling for the release of robber George Davis from prison vandalise the pitch at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds.
1987 - Michael Ryan kills 14 people in Hungerford
1991 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown in a coup as Communist hardliners take over.
2003 - A massive bomb wrecks the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, killing 17 people including the UN's chief envoy to Iraq.
2012 - Film Director Tony Scott commits suicide aged 68.
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