1685 - George Frederic Handel born
1821 - Poet John Keats dies
1868 - W.E.B. DuBois born
1933 - Donna J. Stone born
1934 - Edward Elgar dies
1939 - Peter Fonda born
1944 - Johnny Winter and Sandford born
1945 - The 28th Regiment of the 5th Marines take Mount Suribachi as the battle for control of Japanese-held Iwo Jima rages on.
1951 - Patricia Richardson born
1955 - Howard Jones born
1959 - On his ten-day visit to the Soviet Union, the British Prime Minister forges cultural and trade links between East and West.
1963 - Peter Hicks, a farmer who electrified his car to ward off traffic wardens in London's Covent Garden may be able to evade the law.
1972 - Palestinian hijackers who took over a Lufthansa jet two days ago release the crew at an airfield in the Yemen.
1980 - Tommy McCarthy born
1981 - Soldiers and members of the Civil Guard storm the Spanish Parliament threatening the fledgling democracy, once ruled by dictator General Franco.
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