1835 - The composer Vincenzo Bellini dies
1920 - Mickey Rooney born
1926 - John Coltrane born
1930 - Ray Charles born
1938 - Tom Lester born
1943 - Julio Iglesias born
1945 - Paul Petersen born
1947 - Mary Kay Place born
1949 - Bruce Springsteen born
1951 - Crowds gather outside Buckingham Palace for news of King George VI following an operation to remove part of his lung.
1952 - The star of the silent movies, Charlie Chaplin, returns to his native England after 21 years in the US.
1955 - Barbara Mandell of ITV becomes first woman newsreader
1959 - Jason Alexander born
1974 - Matt Hardy born
1976 - A fire on one of the Royal Navy's latest guided missile destroyers HMS Glasgow kills eight men and Kip Pardue born
1979 - Erik-Michael Estrada born
1985 - Edward Lee Howard is first CIA agent found spying for USSR
1987 - An Australian court lifts the ban on the publication of Peter Wright's autobiography, Spycatcher.
1997 - An MP in the Ulster Unionist Party launches a fierce attack on the British Government and Sinn Fein. USA and Russia agreed ban on weapons-grade plutonium
2000 - British rower Steve Redgrave makes Olympic history at the Sydney Games by winning his fifth consecutive gold medal.
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