1814 - British troops burn the Whitehouse down
1875 - Captain Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel
1900 - Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche dies
1905 - Clara Bow born
1909 - Ruby Keeler born
1916 - Van Johnson born
1917 - Mel Ferrer born
1918 - Leonard Bernstein born
1923 - Monty Hall born
1930 - Sean Connery born
1933 - Regis Philbin born
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle enters the capital of France after French and US troops force a German surrender.
1946 - Rollie Fingers born
1949 - Gene Simmons born
1950 - Willy DeVille born
1954 - Elvis Costello born
1958 - Tim Burton born
1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus born
1967 - The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot and killed by a sniper at a shopping centre in Arlington, Virginia.
1970 - Claudia Schiffer born
1974 - A woman fired from a cannon in Bristol fails to break the English record for the second time.
1978 - Kel Mitchell born
1989 - The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft sends back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets.
1997 - A court in Berlin sentences the former East German leader, Egon Krenz, to six-and-a-half years in prison.
2003 - Two powerful bomb blasts hit the Indian city of Bombay within minutes of each other, killing at least 44 and injuring nearly 150.
2012 - Neil Armstrong (First man to walk on the Moon) dies aged 82.
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