1743 - Thomas Jefferson born - Signatory to the US Declaration of Independence, U.S. President, scientist and founder of the Library of Congress
1906 - Samuel Beckett born
1909 - Eudora Welty born
1919 - Howard Keel born
1926 - Don Adams born
1935 - Lyle Waggoner born
1944 - Jack Casady born
1945 - Tony Dow born
1946 - Al Green born
1963 - Garry Kasparov born
1964 - Sidney Poitier becomes the first black person to win the best actor Oscar.
1970 - Rick Schroder born
1975 - 26 people are killed and up to 30 wounded in a gun battle between Palestinian guerrillas and Christian militants in Beirut. Also police believe a woman attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning was the sixth victim of a serial rapist operating in Cambridge.
1978 - Kyle Howard born
1989 - At least six Palestinians have been killed in an early morning raid by Israeli soldiers on an Arab village on the West Bank.
1992 - Neil Kinnock resigns as Labour Party leader blaming the Conservative-backed press for his party's defeat at the general election.
1997 - Golfing sensation Tiger Woods wins the US Masters, the youngest player ever to do so at the age of 21.
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