1868 - Maxim Gorky born
1899 - August Anheuser Busch born
1921 - Dirk Bogarde born
1933 - The Reichstag burns down
1939 - Spanish Civil War ends
1941 - Author Virginia Woolf commits suicide
1943 - Composer Sergei Rachmaninov dies
1944 - Ken Howard born
1948 - Dianne Wiest born
1955 - Reba McEntire born
1965 - Martin Luther King leads protests to the steps of the state capital of Montgomery in Alabama.
1971 - Juliandra Gillen born
1979 - Radioactive steam leaks into the atmosphere at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania prompting fears for the safety of the plant's 500 workers. Also Prime Minister James Callaghan loses a parliamentary vote of confidence by a minority of one - forcing him to call an early general election.
1981 - Julia Stiles born
1983 - Ian Macgregor, leader of the British Steel Corporation is named as the new chairman of the National Coal Board.
1991 - A jury returns a verdict of accidental death at the end of the inquest of 95 Liverpool football fans crushed to death in Sheffield.
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