1894 - The Blackpool Tower opens
1905 - Greta Garbo and Eddie "Rochester" Anderson born
1920 - Jack Warden and June Foray born
1933 - Robert Blake born
1939 - Frankie Avalon born
1961 - UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold killed in air crash and James Gandolfini born
1970 - Rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix dies after collapsing at a party in London.
1971 - Jada Pinkett Smith and Lance Armstrong born
1972 - The first Ugandan refugees fleeing the persecution of the country's military dictatorship arrive in Britain.
1975 - FBI captures Patty Hearst 'brainwashed' into robbing banks
1978 - The leaders of Israel and Egypt reach a settlement for the Middle East at Camp David in the US.
1981 - French politicians vote to abolish the death penalty
1997 - Islamic militants kill nine tourists and bus driver in Egypt
2000 - Survivors of the Southall and Ladbroke Grove rail crashes accuse Railtrack of putting costs before safety.
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