1903 - Edgar Bergen born
1909 - Hugh Beaumont born
1920 - Patty Andrews born
1935 - Sonny Bono born
1957 - LeVar Burton born
1958 - Ice-T born
1959 - Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro becomes the country's youngest ever premier and John McEnroe born
1965 - A second report from British Railways Board chairman Dr Richard Beeching outlines transport needs for the next 25 years.
1972 - Many homes and businesses will be without electricity for up to nine hours a day from today due to the miner's strike, the Central Electricity Generating Board has announced.
1985 - Ministry of Defence assistant secretary Clive Ponting resigns from his post over the Belgrano affair.
2001 - At least seven Serbs are killed in a bomb attack on a bus making its way to a religious ceremony in Kosovo.
2005 - The Kyoto Protocol that aims to slow down global warming takes effect but the US remains outside it.
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