1547 - Miguel de Cervantes author of 'Don Quixote' born .
1902 - Author Emile Zola dies
1907 - Gene Autry born
1908 - Greer Garson born
1913 - Stanley Kramer born
1931 - Anita Ekberg born
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis born
1941 - Nazis kill thousands of Jews at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev
1942 - Madeline Kahn born
1943 - Lech Walesa born
1948 - Bryant Gumbel born
1952 - John Cobb killed attempting water-speed record on Loch Ness
1960 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschchev thumps his desk and interrupts UN speeches to show disapproval.
1971 - Mackenzie Crook born
1972 - China and Japan agreed to establish diplomatic relations
1978 - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has dies of a heart attack after the shortest papal reign in history, just 33 days.
1979 - Pope John Paul II calls on the people of Ireland to end all violence and return to "the ways of peace".
1988 - The United States successfully launches its first manned space mission since the Challenger disaster two and a half years ago.
1997 - British scientists say they have established a link between a human brain disease - vCJD - and one found in cows - BSE.
2010 - David Miliband quits front line politics.
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