1854 - The Battle of Balaclava (including the Charge of the Light Brigade)
1897 - William Faulkner born
1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich born
1918 - Phil Rizzuto born
1930 - Shel Silverstein born
1931 - Barbara Walters born
1932 - Glenn Gould born
1936 - Juliet Prowse born
1944 - Michael Douglas born
1950 - United Nations forces have taken control of the South Korean capital Seoul, three months after it fell to North Korea, the US Army announces.
1951 - Mark Hamill born
1952 - Christopher Reeve born
1957 - More than 1,000 paratroopers in full battle dress escort nine black children to high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1959 - A Buddhist monk assassinates Sri Lankan PM Bandaranaike
1961 - Heather Locklear born
1962 - Aida Turturro born
1965 - Scottie Pippen born
1968 - Will Smith born
1969 - Catherine Zeta-Jones born
1977 - 15,000 attend Steve Biko's funeral in South Africa
1983 - Thirty-eight prisoners escape from the high-security Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.
1996 - Opposition fighters in Afghanistan reach the eastern suburbs of Kabul and are poised to take control of the country's capital.
2003 - On the final day of the Hutton Inquiry, the court hears closing statements bitterly criticising the Ministry of Defence and the BBC.
2010 - Ed Miliband defeats his brother David to become the leader of the Labour Party.
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