1853 - Vincent Van Gogh born
1856 - Crimean war ends
1913 - Frankie Laine born
1930 - John Astin, Rolf Harris and Peter Marshall born
1937 - Warren Beatty born
1940 - Astrud Gilberto born
1945 - Eric Clapton born
1951 - Julius Rosenberg, an American electrical engineer and his wife Ethel are found guilty by the Federal Court in New York of passing secrets about the atomic bomb to Russia.
1962 - M.C. Hammer born
1964 - Ian Ziering born
1968 - Celine Dion born
1976 - Matt Doran born
1978 - The Conservative Party recruits advertisers Saatchi & Saatchi to revamp its image and get its political message across ahead of the General Election.
1979 -
1979 - Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Airey Neave is killed by an IRA car bomb as he leaves the House of Commons car park. Also Norah Jones born
1981 - President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded when lone gunman John Hinckley opens fire in Washington.
1983 - Scott Moffatt born
1992 - British Prime Minister John Major has mounted his soapbox to urge voters in Cheltenham to elect John Taylor as the first black Conservative MP.
2002 - The Queen Mother dies peacefully in her sleep aged 101.
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