1842 - This the first of the two Opium wars ended up foring China to open up a number of ports to British ships and to cede Hong Kong to the British
1877 - Mormon leader Brigham Young dies
1898 - Preston Sturges born
1915 - Ingrid Bergman born
1917 - Isabel Sanford born
1920 - Charlie "Bird" Parker born
1923 - Richard Attenborough born
1928 - Dick O'Neill born
1936 - John McCain born
1938 - Elliott Gould born
1939 - William Friedkin born
1941 - Robin Leach born
1947 - James Hunt born
1950 - British troops arrive in Korea to bolster the US presence there.
1958 - Michael Jackson born
1965 - Gemini V returns to Earth
1971 - Carla Gugino born
1974 - At least 220 people are arrested following disturbances at a rock festival in Windsor Great Park in Berkshire.
1975 - Dante Basco born
1986 - Britain's oldest twins reach 100 and receive telegrams from the Queen.
1992 - A protest march against right-wing attacks on refugees in Germany ends in violence after demonstrators clash with police.
2005 - Hurricane Katrina lashes New Orleans with high winds and hard rain, cutting power and flooding homes.
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