1901 - Linus Pauling born
1907 - Earl Scheib born
1912 - The first parachute jump from a plane
1915 - Zero Mostel born
1916 - Author Henry James dies
1923 - Charles Durning born
1930 - Gavin MacLeod born
1939 - Tommy Tune born
1940 - Mario Andretti born
1942 - Brian Jones born
1948 - Bernadette Peters born
1955 - Gilbert Gottfried born
1973 - Eric Lindros born
1975 - A London Underground train crashes at Moorgate, killing the driver and at least 29 passengers.
1986 - Olof Palme, the prime minister of Sweden, is shot dead and his wife Lisbeth wounded in a street ambush in central Stockholm.
1991 - US President George Bush announces a ceasefire in the Gulf after Iraq accepts all 12 UN resolutions.
2000 - British Nuclear Fuels confirms its chief executive, John Taylor, has resigned over a safety scandal.
2001 - 10 people are killed and more than 70 injured when a high speed train is hit by a car which careered off the motorway at Selby, North Yorkshire.
2011 - Star of silver screen Jane Russell dies aged 89.
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