1815 - Anthony Trollope born
1930 - Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1934 - Shirley MacLaine born
1936 - Jill Ireland born
1942 - Barbra Streisand born
1945 - Doug Clifford born
1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier born
1954 - 1954: British security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared in Kenya 18 months ago.
1967 - The Soviet Union has announced the catastrophic failure of its latest space mission, with the crash of Soyuz 1 and the death of cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov who was on board.
1972 - Chipper Jones born
1975 - A tense stand-off at the West German embassy in Stockholm has ended in violence, with the death of at least three people.
1982 - Britain suffess its first casualty in the Falklands campaign before a single shot has been fired. Petty Officer Kevin Stuart Casey is announced missing presumed drowned after the Sea King helicopter he was travelling in ditched into the sea. Also Kelly Clarkson born
1990 - The American space agency Nasa successfully launches the space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral in Florida on its historic mission to carry the Hubble space telescope into orbit 380 miles (611.5 km) above the Earth.
1993 - A massive IRA bomb rips through the heart of the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40.
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