1913 - Oleg Cassini born
1928 - Ethel Kennedy born
1932 - Joel Grey born
1939 - Louise Lasser born
1947 - Meshach Taylor born
1951 - US President Truman appoints General Ridgway as supreme commander of the UN forces in Korea after shocking the American public by dismissing General Macarthur
1957 - The island of Singapore is granted self-government from Britain to come into effect next year.
1961 - Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann put on trial
1981 - The arrest of a black man leads to hundreds of youths rampaging through the streets of Brixton in south London
1987 - Joss Stone born
1990 - Customs officers in Middlesbrough say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
1996 - Israeli planes and helicopters have launched air strikes against targets in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time in nearly 14 years.
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