1857 - Clarence Darrow born
1882 - Leopold Stokowski born
1906 - San Francisco is destroyed by an earth quake
1913 - A diptheria serum is discovered
1946 - Hayley Mills born
1947 - James Woods born
1955 - Eminent scientist Dr Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, dies in hospital aged 76.
1956 - The British Chancellor Harold Macmillan unveils plans for a new state 'premium bond' saving scheme offering cash prizes instead of interest. Also Eric Roberts born
1960 - At least 60,000 demonstrators gather in Trafalgar Square to mark the end of the Aldermaston to London "ban the bomb" march
1963 - Conan O'Brien born
1967 - Maria Bello born
1976 - Melissa Joan Hart born
1978 - The US Senate narrowly back President Carter's controversial Panama Canal treaty.
1988 - A retired US car worker has been found guilty of Nazi war crimes. John Demjanjuk was sentenced to death but appealed. His conviction was quashed in 1993 by the Israeli Supreme Court, after evidence suggested that another Ukrainian was Ivan the Terrible.
1994 - The ethnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreading throughout the country, aid officials say.
1996 - Seventeen Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide are killed by gunmen in Cairo.
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