1596 - Rene Descartes born
1732 - Joseph Haydn born
1855 - Novelist Charlotte Bronte dies
1915 - Henry Morgan born
1925 - Leo Buscaglia born
1927 - César Chávez and William Daniels born
1928 - Gordie Howe born
1934 - Shirley Jones born
1935 - Richard Chamberlain and Herb Alpert born
1943 - Christopher Walken born
1945 - Gabe Kaplan born
1948 - Al Gore and Rhea Perlman born
1953 - More than 1,500 attend the funeral of Queen Mary at St George's Chapel in Windsor.
1959 - The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India after an epic 15-day journey on foot from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, over the Himalayan mountains.
1966 - Harold Wilson and the Labour party win the general election with a landslide majority of 96 seats in the House of Commons.
1971 - Pavel Bure and Ewan McGregor born
1972 - More than 500 people attend a rally in London ahead of a four-day demonstration against nuclear arms.
1986 - Thousands of people take part in festivities to mark the historic final hours of 97 years of local rule in London, as the GLC is abolished
1990 - An anti-poll tax rally in central London erupts into the worst riots in the city for a century.
2001 - Footballer David 'Rocky' Rocastle dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, aged 33.
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