1849 = Luther Burbank born
1872 - Piet Mondriaan born
1875 - Maurice Ravel born
1930 - Lord Snowdon born
1934 - Willard Scott born
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti born
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker born
1960 - Ivan Lendl born
1965 - State troopers assault scores of demonstrators demanding better voting rights for blacks as they attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery in Alabama. Also a golden eagle which escaped from Regent's Park Zoo is still on the loose after outsmarting his keepers' latest attempts to recapture him.
1969 - Golda Meir has been elected as the first female prime minister of Israel following Levi Eshkol's death.
1975 - The body of Lesley Whittle, the 17-year-old heiress kidnapped from her Shropshire home 52 days previously, is found at the bottom of a drain shaft.
1977 - Paul Cattermole born
1988 - The IRA confirms the three people shot dead by security forces in Gibraltar yesterday were members of an active service unit.
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