1813 - Giuseppe Verdi born
1900 - Helen Hayes born
1913 - The Panama Canal is opened
1917 - Thelonious Monk born
1924 - Edward D. Wood born
1926 - Richard Jaeckel born
1930 - Harold Pinter born
1946 - Ben Vereen and Charles Dance born
1955 - David Lee Roth born
1958 - Tanya Tucker born
1967 - Mike Malinin born
1969 - The Northern Ireland Cabinet accepts the Hunt report recommendations to disarm the RUC and abolish the Ulster Special Constabulary and Brett Favre born
1970 - Quebec separatists kidnap Labour and Immigration Minister Pierre Laporte.
1974 - Dale Earnhardt born
1975 - Actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor secretly remarry in Africa only 16 months after getting divorced.
1976 - Bob Burnquist born
1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe born
1980 - Thatcher 'not for turning'. The prime minister makes a memorably defiant speech at her party's conference in Brighton. Two earthquakes strike the northern Algerian city of El Asnam killing 3,500.
1999 - Thousands gather to watch the giant Ferris wheel become the latest landmark on the London skyline.
2010 - Soul singer Solomon Burke dies on a plane at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
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