1578 - William Harvey born
1815 - Otto von Bismarck born
1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff born
1908 - Abraham Maslow born
1917 - Scott Joplin dies
1918 - The RAF is formed from the Royal Flying Corps
1920 - Toshiro Mifune born
1924 - Adolf Hitler imprisoned
1926 - Anne McCaffrey born
1932 - Debbie Reynolds and Gordon Jump born
1957 - The BBC receives a mixed reaction to a spoof documentary about spaghetti crops in Switzerland.
1938 - Ali MacGraw born
1981 - Hannah Spearitt born
1983 - Tens of thousands of peace demonstrators have formed a human chain stretching 14 miles (22.5 kilometres) across a southern English county.
1990 - Up to 1,000 prisoners run amok at Strangeways Prison in Manchester in a violent protest against overcrowding.
1999 - A legally-binding minimum rate of pay (minimum wage) has been introduced in Britain for the first time.
2000 - The Enigma machine, used by the Germans to encrypt messages in the Second World War, is stolen from Bletchley Park.
2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has been arrested and taken to prison, ending a heavily-armed standoff at his Belgrade villa.
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