1758 - 5th U.S. president James Monroe born
1926 - Harper Lee born
1937 - Saddam Hussein born
1941 - Ann-Margret born
1945 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy until his downfall in 1943, is killed by partisans along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and some close associates.
1950 - Jay Leno born
1958 - Nancy Lee Grahn born
1969 - The French president, Charles de Gaulle, resigns from office after 11 years, following his defeat in a referendum on governmental reforms.
1974 - Penelope Cruz born
1981 - Jessica Alba born
1986 - The Soviet Union has acknowledges there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
1994 - Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames admits selling secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia, in one of the most damaging spy cases in US history.
1996 - 35 people die when a man opens fire indiscriminately on a crowded tourist area of Tasmania, Australia.
2001 - Denis Tito, a billionaire businessman from California has become the first paying passenger to go to outer space.
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