1872 - The Mary Celeste (not Marie) is found abandoned
1892 - Francisco Franco born
1944 - Dennis Wilson born
1949 - Jeff Bridges born
1961 - The Health Minister, Enoch Powell, announces that women who wish to have oral contraception will be able to get it on the National Health Service.
1963 - Jozef Sabovcik born
1964 - Marisa Tomei born
1970 - Jay-Z born
1971 - 15 people, including a 13-year-old boy and a woman, are killed and 17 injured after a bomb explodes in a crowded pub in Belfast.
1973 - Tyra Banks born
1976 - Benjamin Britten, considered to be Britain's leading composer, dies aged 63.
1981 - Lila McCann born
1983 - SAS soldiers involved in undercover operations in Northern Ireland shoot dead two IRA gunmen and injured a third man who escaped.
1991 - Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held US hostage in Lebanon, is freed after six and a half years.
2003 - The US President, George W Bush, withdraws a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe.
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