1895 - Communist father Friedrich Engels dies
1906 - John Huston born
1930 - Neil Armstrong born
1946 - Loni Anderson born
1956 - Maureen McCormick born
1962 - Film actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her bed with an empty bottle of sleeping tablets by her side.
1962 - Patrick Ewing is born
1964 - Adam Yauch born
1973 - Three people are killed and 55 wounded when two Arab gunmen open fire on a crowded passenger lounge at Athens airport.
1975: The Forestry Commission announce that Dutch elm disease is spreading having attacked over 3 million trees in Britain.
1983 - Twenty two members of the IRA are jailed for a total of more than 4,000 years following one of Northern Ireland's biggest mass trials.
2010 - A cave-in leaves 33 Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet (700 metres) vertically underground in a small copper-and-gold mine near the northern Chilean city of Copiapó, 500 miles (800km) north of Santiago.
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