1503 - Nostradamus born
1819 - Alabama becomes the 22nd State of the US
1861 - Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's consort dies
1911 - Spike Jones born
1914 - Morey Amsterdam born
1919 - Shirley Jackson born
1922 - Don Hewitt born
1932 - Charlie Rich born
1935 - Lee Remick born
1946 - Patty Duke born
1955 - The Labour party elects Hugh Gaitskell as its new leader to succeed Clement Attlee.
1959 - Archbishop Makarios is elected the first president of the future Cyprus Republic.
1962 - The unmanned spacecraft, Mariner 2, makes the first ever fly-by of the planet Venus and sends back radio signals over tens of millions of miles of space.
1972 - Apollo 17, the last manned space mission to the Moon, returns to Earth, bringing an end to America's programme of lunar exploration.
1979 - Michael Owen born
1984 - Miners' leader Arthur Scargill is found guilty of obstruction during a picket at a Yorkshire coal works earlier this year.
1995 - Leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia sign the Dayton Accord in Paris to end more than three years of bitter conflict.
2003 - The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after being found by US soldiers hiding in a cellar.
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