1872 - Illustrator and author Aubrey Beardsley born
1904 - Jazz Musician Count Basie born
1924 - Actor Jack Weston born
1932 - American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, novelist and composer Melvin Van Peebles born
1936 - NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain born
1938 - Country singer Kenny Rogers born
1940 - Leon Trotsky murdered
1956 - Actress Kim Cattrall born
1968 - 'Prague Spring', dozens are killed in a massive Soviet military clampdown in Czechoslovakia.
1973 - The coroner presiding over the "Bloody Sunday" inquest accuses the British army of "sheer unadulterated murder".
1983 - Philippines opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated minutes after returning home from exile.
1986 - At least 1,200 people are feared dead after volcanic gases escape from a lake in Cameroon.
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