1814 - Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba
1866 - Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker) born
1892 - Lowell Thomas born
1909 - Robert Peary becomes the first person to reach the North Pole
1917 - The U.S. joins the first word war
1929 - Andre Previn born
1937 - Billy Dee Williams and Merle Haggard born
1941 - Philip Austin born
1947 - John Ratzenberger born
1952 - Marilu Henner born
1968 - Dozens of major cities in the United States are rocked by an escalation in the race riots following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
1969 - Ari Meyers born
1975 - A plane carrying 99 Vietnamese orphans has lands at Heathrow airport in 'Operation Babylift'.
1976 - Candace Cameron born
1989 - The government has announced it is to abolish legislation which guarantees work for more than 9,000 dockers.
1994 - The presidents of the African states of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash believed to have been caused by rocket fire.
1997 - Nasa brings home the space shuttle Columbia 12 days early amid fears over a defective fuel cell.
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