1862 - O. Henry born
1885 - D.H. Lawrence born
1940 - Brian DePalma born
1942 - Tom Dreesen born
1943 - Lola Falana born
1960 - The American runner Wilma Rudolph confirms her place in sporting history with a third Olympic gold medal in Rome
1962 - Kristy McNichol born
1965 - Moby born
1967 - Harry Connick born
1973 - President Salvador Allende of Chile - the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state - dies in a revolt led by the armed forces and backed by the CIA.
1975 - Brad Fischetti born
1977 - Ludacris born
1978 - Writer and broadcaster Georgi Markov dies of blood poisoning, four days after he said he was stabbed with an umbrella at a London bus stop.
1979 - Ariana Richards born
1980 - The Marlborough diamond is stolen from a London jewellers in a bold £1m robbery.
2001 - The United States and the rest of the world left in a state of shock after a day of terrorist attacks which left thousands dead and the World Trade Center destroyed.
2003 - The Swedish Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh, dies of her injuries after she is stabbed in a Stockholm department store.
2005 - Thirty-eight years of military rule come to an end as Israeli soldiers lower the flag and pull out of Gaza.
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