1914 - Allen Funt born
1924 - Lauren Bacall born
1925 - B.B. King born
1927 - Peter Falk born
1955 - Robin Yount born
1956 - Mickey Rourke and David Copperfield born
1961 - Jennifer Tilly born
1968 - First and Second class posts introduced into Britain and Marc Anthony born
1974 - President Ford pardons Richard Nixon over Watergate
1976 - Tina Barrett born
1977 - Mark Bolan the leader singer of T-Rex is killed in a car crash
1978 - An earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale hits south-east Iran demolishing a major city and dozens of surrounding villages.
1982 - Alexis Bledel born
1986 - More than 177 people die during a lethal fire in a South African gold mine.
1988 - Winds reach 175mph as Hurricane Gilbert hits Mexico
1991 - The government suspends Britain's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism following Black Wednesday
2004 - Ken Bigley, Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong seized in Iraq
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