1844 - The worlds first cooperative society if formed in Rochdale
1879 - Joseph Stalin born
1922 - Paul Winchell born
1926 - Joe Paterno born
1935 - Phil Donahue born
1937 - Jane Fonda born
1940 - Frank Zappa born
1948 - Samuel L. Jackson born
1954 - Chris Evert born
1955 - Jane Kaczmarek born
1957 - Ray Romano born
1958 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France with an overwhelming majority.
1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner born
1962 - President Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agree the UK will buy nuclear missiles from the US to form a multilateral Nato nuclear force.
1965 - Andy Dick born
1966 - Kiefer Sutherland born
1969 - Jack Noseworthy born
1977 - The TUC General Council narrowly votes to reject firemen's demands for a public campaign against a 10% limit on wage increases.
1988 - A Pan Am jumbo jet with 259 passengers crashes on to the town of Lockerbie near the Scottish borders after a bomb explodes onboard. All passengers onboard are killed as well as an additional 11 on the ground.
2001 - Police storm a cargo ship in the English Channel after an intelligence tip-off.
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