1847 - The infamous bank robber and gun slinger Jesse James born
1912 - John Cage born
1929 - Bob Newhart born
1934 - Carol Lawrence born
1940 - Raquel Welch born
1946 - Freddie Mercury and Loudon Wainwright III born
1950 - Cathy Guisewite born
1959 - The first trunk dialling system from a public call-box is launched during a ceremonial phone call from Bristol to London.
1969 - Dweezil Zappa born
1973 - Rose McGowan born
1975 - Two people are killed and 63 injured as a suspected IRA bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton hotel in central London.
1979 - The Queen leads the nation in mourning as the body of her husband's uncle, Lord Mountbatten is buried after a day of pageantry in London.
1986 - The 16-hour siege on a Pan Am jet in Pakistan comes to a bloody end, with at least 17 people dead.
1997 - Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, dies at the age of 87.
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