1851 - The first Americas cup race is held
1862 - Classical composer Claude Debussy born
1893 - Dorothy Parker born
1904 - Deng Xiaoping born
1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen
1917 - Blues legend John Lee Hooker born
1920 - Ray Bradbury born
1922 - Irish Nationalist Michael Collins is killed
1934 - Norman Schwarzkopf born
1939 - Carl Yastrzemski born
1940 - Valerie Harper born
1942 - Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy
1947 - Cindy Williams born
1963 - Musician Tori Amos born
1966 - Britain's largest manufacturing company Imperial Chemical Industries announces 1,000 redundancies at its nylon-fibre producing factories.
1972 - Rhodesia is thrown out of the Olympic Games with just four days to go before the opening ceremony in the German city of Munich.
1978 - The Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta, dies aged 89 at his home in Mombasa.
1986 - Deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police John Stalker is cleared of misconduct.
1999 - A 54-year old Tony Martin is arrested after a suspected burglar was killed at his farmhouse in Norfolk.
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