1790 - 10th President of the U.S John Tyler born.
1867 - Cy Young born
1905 - Philip Ahn born
1918 - Sam Walton born
1918 - Pearl Bailey born
1943 - John Major born
1950 - Bud Cort born
1964 - Elle Macpherson born
1967 - The stricken oil supertanker, the Torrey Canyon, refuses to sink despite more than a day of heavy bombing by the RAF and the Royal Navy
1968 - Lucy Lawless born
1971 - Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of murder at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of 500 South Vietnamese civilians. Also Charles Manson and three members of his hippy cult are sentenced to death in Los Angeles.
1976 - Jennifer Capriati born
1981 - Thousands of people jog through the normally quiet Sunday streets of the capital to try and cross the finish line of the first ever London marathon.
1982 - Hideaki Takizawa born
1999 - The case of James Hanratty is sent back to the Court of Appeal - 37 years after he was hanged for the notorious A6 murder in Bedfordshire.
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