1619 - Jan van Riebeeck born
1729 - Catherine the Great born
1816 - Charlotte Bronte born
1838 - John Muir born
1910 - Aurthor Mark Twain dies
1915 - Anthony Quinn born
1926 - Elizabeth II born
1932 - Elaine May born
1935 - Charles Grodin born
1945 - Russian troops capture some outlying suburbs of Berlin at the beginning of what promises to be a bitter battle for control of the city.
1947 - Iggy Pop born
1951 - Tony Danza born
1955 - National newspapers are published for the first time in nearly a month following the end of the maintenance workers' strike.
1958 - Andie Macdowell born
1959 - Robert Smith born
1975 - The President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu is forced to resign, accusing the United States of betrayal.
1987 - More than 100 people are killed and over 300 injured after a Tamil Tiger bomb explodes in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
1994 - One of the Guildford Four, Paul Hill, wins his appeal against a conviction for an IRA murder in Northern Ireland.
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