1873 - Explorer Dr David Livingstone dies
1908 - Eve Arden born
1926 - Cloris Leachman born
1933 - Willie Nelson born
1940 - Burt Young born
1944 - Jill Clayburgh born
1945 - Dachau concentration camp liberated by Americans
1946 - Carl XVI Gustav born
1952 - The British public gets the chance to read The Diary of a Young Girl, written by Anne Frank who hid from the Nazis in Holland during the war.
1961 - Isiah Thomas born
1971 - Carolyn Dawn Johnson born
1973 - President Richard Nixon takes responsibility for the Watergate scandal but denies any personal involvement. Also Jeff Timmons born
1975 - The war in Vietnam ends as the government in Saigon announces its unconditional surrender to the Vietcong.
1982 - Kirsten Dunst born
1993 - The world number one women's tennis player, Monica Seles, is stabbed in the back during a quarter-final match in Hamburg.
1999 - Two people are killed and at least 30 injured in the third nail-bomb attack in London in two weeks.
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