1895 - The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric plant is opened
1904 - Christopher Isherwood born
1921 - Ben Bradlee born
1926 - Rudolf Valentino dies
1935 - Geraldine Ferraro born
1959 - American President Dwight D Eisenhower, vows to stand by West Germans in their efforts to remain strong and free, the US President pledges.
1960 - Branford Marsalis born
1975 - Talks between the Rhodesian Government and the African National Council collapse acrimoniously.
1980 - Macaulay Culkin born
1985 - Controversial athlete Zola Budd breaks the world 5,000m record.
1994 - A man is given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain.
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