1897 - Walter Winchell born
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts
1915 - Billie Holiday born
1920 - Ravi Shankar born
1928 - James Garner born
1933 - Wayne Rogers born
1939 - David Frost and Francis Coppola born
1951 - Janis Ian born
1954 - Jackie Chan born
1964 - Russell Crowe born
1968 - Motor racing world champion Jim Clark is killed in a car crash during a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.
1976 - Controversial MP John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party, leaving James Callaghan's government in a minority of one.
1978 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the controversial neutron bomb.
1986 - Home-computing pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair sells the marketing and merchandising rights to his inventions for £5m to computing rival Amstrad.
1999 - The World Trade Organisation has ruled in favour of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with Europe over bananas.
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