1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs born
1897 - The Boston Undergound opens
1912 - Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor dies
1922 - Vittorio Gassman born
1922 - Yvonne DeCarlo born
1923 - Tokyo devastated by earthquake which claimed the lives of at least 100,000 people and boxer Rocky Marciano born
1933 - Conway Twitty born
1935 - Seiji Ozawa born
1939 - German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Polish cities, including the capital, Warsaw - Britain and France prepare to declare war.
1939 - Lily Tomlin born
1946 - Barry Gibb born
1950 - Dr. Phil McGraw born
1957 - Gloria Estefan born
1960 - Britain's first betting shops will be allowed to open for business from May 1961, the government announces.
1969 - King Idris of Libya is deposed after a group of officers take power and declare the country a republic.
1976 - The first of 11,500 standpipes are connected in Yorkshire as local reservoirs reach their lowest levels in years.
1983 - The United States accuses the USSR of shooting down a civilian airliner which is missing off Russia's eastern coast.
1997 - The driver of the car in which Princess Diana was fatally injured had been drinking, French investigators reveal.
2003 - The widow of Dr David Kelly tells the Hutton inquiry he ended his life feeling let down by his political masters.
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