1774 - John Chapman born
1849 - Ivan Pavlov born
1888 - T.S. Eliot born
1898 - George Gershwin born
1914 - Jack LaLanne born
1917 - Artist Edgar Degas dies
1926 - Julie London born
1944 - British and Polish soldiers withdraw from Arnhem after days of fierce fighting with little food or water and Anne Robinson born
1945 - Composer Bela Bartok dies
1948 - Olivia Newton-John born
1956 - Linda Hamilton born
1960 - Almost 70 million Americans tune in to watch the first ever televised debate between the two presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon.
1962 - Lawrence Leritz born
1968 - Portugal's Salazar still in coma - Caetano takes over as PM and James Caviezel born
1972 - Shawn Stockman born
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 - Serena Williams born
1982 - Christina Milian born
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup after 132 years in US hands
1984 - Britain and China finalise proposals to end 150 years of British rule in Hong Kong.
1997 - Two earthquakes kill 10 people and severely damage priceless art treasures in central Italy.
2002 - More than 1,000 die as Joola ferry capsizes off Gambia coast
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