1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson born
1910 - Mother Teresa born and the first 'talky' film is demonstrated by Edison
1916 - Martha Raye born
1942 - Daryl Dragon born
1943 - Tuesday Weld born
1947 - Barbara Bach born
1950 - The BBC transmits the first ever live television pictures across the Channel.
1952 - Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens born
1953 - Alex Lifeson born
1967 - The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead at his Belgravia home in London.
1978 - The Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, is killed by a bomb blast on his boat in Ireland
1979 - 18 British soldiers are killed in two booby-trap bomb attacks at Warrenpoint, South Down, close to the border with the Irish Republic.
1979 - Lord Mountbatten murder by IRA bomb
1987 - Robert Maclennan MP succeeds David Owen as leader of the SDP party.
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