1879 - Albert Einstein born
1883 - Karl Marx dies
1912 - Les Brown born
1920 - Hank Ketcham born
1928 - Frank Borman born
1933 - Quincy Jones and Michael Caine born
1947 - Billy Crystal born
1958 - A celebratory 101-gun salute has been fired in Monaco after Princess Grace - formerly film star Grace Kelly gives birth to a son, Prince Albert.
1960 - The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank sets a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles.
1961 - Kirby Puckett born
1964 - Jack Ruby has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
1983 - Taylor Hanson born
1984 - Gunmen shoot and injure the Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams, in an attack in central Belfast.
1991 - The Birmingham Six walk free from jail after their convictions for the murder of 21 people in two pubs are quashed by the Court of Appeal.
2011 - A second hydrogen explosion has rocked an earthquake-striken nuclear plant in Japan. The government says the core container of the No.3 reactor at Fukushima remains intact at this time.
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