1735 - John Adams, second president of the US born.
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky born
1885 - Ezra Pound born
1893 - Charles Atlas born
1896 - Ruth Gordon born
1911 - Tom Horn Born
1932 - Louis Malle born
1935 - Robert Caro born
1937 - Claude Lelouch born
1939 - Grace Slick born
1942 - Battle of El Alamein ends in Allied victory
1945 - Henry Winkler born
1951 - Harry Hamlin born
1957 - The Government reveals details of plans to reform the House of Lords which include creating the first women life peerages.
1960 - Diego Armando Maradona born
1961 - Russia explodes biggest ever nuclear device provoking widespread anger from around the world.
1967 - Gavin Rossdale born
1981 - The secretary of the UK's pro-euthanasia group Exit is sentenced to two and a half years for aiding and abetting suicide.
1984 - Father Jerzy Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of Poland's banned trade union, is found dead 11 days after he was kidnapped.
1991 - US President George Bush encourages Arabs and Israelis to "lay down the past" in his opening speech to the Middle East peace conference in Spain.
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