1876 - Mata Hari born.
1884 - Billie Burke born
1903 - Louis Leakey born
1904 - Ralph Bunche born
1926 - Stan Freberg born
1927 - Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer born
1942 - Garrison Keillor born
1958 - Washington's Court of Appeals quashes playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress after a two-year legal battle.
1960 - David Duchovny born
1972 - The Ugandan leader, Idi Amin, sets a deadline for the expulsion of most of the country's Asians.
1975 - Charlize Theron born
1987 - American Lynne Cox, 30, took two hours and six minutes to cross the Bering Strait to become the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union.
Lynne Cox, 30, took two hours and six minutes to cross the Bering Strait which separates the Arctic and Pacific oceans - and the two superpowers.
1998 - At least 200 people are killed and many more injured when US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed within minutes of each other.
2001 - The British government re-nationalisead a private hospital for the first time.
2003 - Amrozi bin Nurhasyim is convicted for the Bali nightclub bombings which killed 190 people in 2002.
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