1843 - Hong Kong is proclaimed a colony
1856 - Booker T. Washington born
1900 - Spencer Tracy born
1908 - Bette Davis born
1916 - Gregory Peck born
1921 - Gale Storm born
1926 - Roger Corman born
1934 - Frank Gorshin born
1937 - Colin Powell born
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog born
1955 - Sir Winston Churchill resigns as prime minister of Britain due to failing health.
1970 - West Germany's kidnapped ambassador to Guatemala has been shot dead. The body of Count Karl von Spreti was found in an empty shack 10 miles (16 kilometres) to the north of the country's capital, Guatemala City
1976 - Eccentric American billionaire Howard Hughes dies aged 70, whilst on a plane flying him from Acapulco, Mexico, to Houston, in Texas, for medical treatment at the Methodist Hospital.
1976 - James Callaghan wins the Labour leadership contest and takes over at Number 10 Downing Street.
1986 - A bomb explodes in La Belle disco crowded with US servicemen in Berlin, Germany, killing at least two and injuring over 120.
1988 - Hijackers who took control of a Kuwait Airways jumbo jet release 24 female passengers and one man with a heart condition.
2001 - A Dutch lorry driver is sentenced to 14 years in prison for his part in the deaths of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants.
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