1826 - The first railway line in the USA is opened in Massachusetts
1849 - Author Edgar Allan Poe dies
1885 - Niels Bohr born
1905 - Andy Devine born
1911 - Vaughn Monroe born
1917 - June Allyson born
1920 - The first women are admitted to Oxford to study for full degrees
1927 - R.D. Laing born
1931 - Bishop Desmond Tutu born
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp born
1952 - Vladimir Putin born
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma born
1957 - Michael W. Smith born
1959 - Hundreds trapped by fire on the world longest pier at Southend on Sea and Simon Cowell born
1968 - Thom Yorke and Toni Braxton born
1976 - Rachel McAdams born
1977 - Ninety sets of Swedish identical twins travel to Felixstowe for a brief shopping trip.
1979 - Shawn Ashmore born
1985 - Palestinian militants hijack the Achille Lauro cruise ship in the Mediterranean and threaten to blow it up.
2001 - The United States launches its military offensive against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan
2004 - Fears are growing for the British hostage, Kenneth Bigley, abducted three weeks ago in Iraq.
2010 - Bishop Desmond Tutu retires from public office on his 79th birthday.
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