1869 - Mahatma Gandhi born
1890 - Groucho Marx born
1895 - Bud Abbott born
1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland born
1938 - Rex Reed born
1945 - Don McLean born
1948 - Donna Karan born
1951 - Sting born
1955 - Lorraine Bracco born
1968 - More than 25 people die during a gun battle in Mexico City just 10 days before the Olympics Games are due to begin. In Birmingham a woman gives birth to six babies in what is being hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain.
1970 - Kelly Ripa born
1974 - Experiments on monkeys in America reveal how smoking cannabis can cause brain damage.
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki born
1983 - Neil Kinnock becomes the new leader of the Labour party, with Roy Hattersley joining him as deputy.
1989 - Anglican rebels disrupt a church service in Rome attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury in protest at plans for closer ties with the Catholic church.
1993 - Demonstrators who back rebel ministers occupying Moscow's parliament in defiance of President Boris Yeltsin clash with police.
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