1847 - The US-Mexican war ends in victory for the US
1852 - The Duke of Wellington dies
1901 - US President William McKinley assassinated
1914 - Clayton Moore born
1927 - Isadora Duncan is killed
1933 - Harve Presnell born
1938 - Nicol Williamson born
1944 - Joey Heatherton born
1947 - Sam Neill born
1951 - Prime Minister Clement Attlee opens the largest oil refinery in Europe, at Fawley on Southampton Water.
1960 - The army says it is in control of the West African state of Congo after a day of heavy fighting which left up to 70 people dead and Callum Keith Rennie born
1975 - Rembrandt's "Night Watch" slashed at Amsterdam museum
1981 - A teenage boy who fired blank shots at the Queen last June pleads guilty to a charge under the 1848 Treason Act.
1982 - Princess Grace of Monaco dies of the injuries she sustained in a car crash near Monte Carlo and Lebanese president-elect Bashir Gemayel is assassinated
1985 - Moscow retaliates two days after Britain expels 25 Soviet spies following the defection of KGB chief Oleg Gordievsky.
1993 - A British holidaymaker is murdered and his girlfriend injured during an attempted mugging in Florida.
1997 - Hendrix becomes first rock star commemorated by blue plaque
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