1917 - Buddy Rich born
1921 - Deborah Kerr born
1924 - Truman Capote born
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
1931 - Angie Dickinson born
1935 - Z.Z. Hill born
1935 - Johnny Mathis born
1938 - The British Prime Minister is hailed as bringing "peace to Europe" after signing a pact with Germany.
1943 - Marilyn McCoo born
1951 - Big crowds have attended the final ceremonies which marked the offical end of the Festival of Britain.
1955 - Hollywood actor James Dean is killed when his sports car is involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle.
1957 - Fran Drescher born
1961 - Eric Stoltz born
1964 - Robby Takac born
1967 - BBC Radio 1 launches as UK's first legal pop music station
1968 - Monica Bellucci born
1971 - The British Government names Oleg Lyalin as the Soviet defector who last week exposed dozens of Russians alleged to be spying in the UK and Jenna Elfman born
1980 - Martina Hingis born
1981 - Dominique Moceanu born
1982 - Kieran Culkin and Lacey Chabert born
1988 - The killing of three unarmed IRA suspects by British soldiers was lawful, a Gibraltar court finds.
1993 - Quakes in western state of Maharashtra, India, kill 22,000
1994 - A meeting between Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Russian President Boris Yeltsin had to be cancelled because the Russian premier overslept.
2000 - There is a shocked and angry reaction to images of the death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy caught in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire.
2004 - Baghdad bomb kills 34 children in day of bloodshed
2010 - Hollywood actor Tony Curtis dies
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