1870 - Maria Montessori born
1903 - Arthur Godfrey born
1908 - William Saroyan born
1918 - Alan Jay Lerner born
1924 - Buddy Hackett born
1928 - James Coburn born
1932 - Roy Castle born
1935 - Frank Robinson born
1935 - Eldridge Cleaver born
1945 - Itzhak Perlman born
1945 - Van Morrison born
1949 - Richard Gere born
1957 - The Federation of Malaya becomes independent from Britain after a midnight handover ceremony.
1959 - British prime minister Harold Macmillan and American president Dwight Eisenhower give an historic live television broadcast from Downing Street.
1970 - Deborah Gibson born
1972 - Chris Tucker born
1977 - Ian Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front wins an overwhelming victory in the country's general election and WWE wrestler Jeff Hardy born
1979 - Chad Brannon born
1989 - Buckingham Palace confirms that after 16 years of marriage Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips are to live apart.
1994 - The IRA announces a "complete cessation of military operations" after 25 years of bombing and killing.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, is killed after her car crashes in a Paris underpass - the driver and her friend Dodi Fayed are also died.
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