1927 - Robert Shaw born
1944 - Sam Elliott born
1945 - American forces drop an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in the past three days.
1957 - Melanie Griffith born
1963 - Whitney Houston born
1968 - Gillian Anderson born
1969 - Actress Sharon Tate is found brutally murdered in her Los Angeles home, along with four other victims.
1971 - New powers to enable authorities in Northern Ireland to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists without trial are introduced.
1974 - Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th US president following Richard Nixon's resignation.
1979 - Brighton becomes the first major resort in Britain to agree to set aside part of its seafront to nudists.
1993 - A five-year-old girl who was severely injured in the fighting in Bosnia is flown to Britain for treatment.
1999 - Charles Kennedy wins the race to succeed Paddy Ashdown as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
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