1820 - Florence Nightingale born
1907 - Katharine Hepburn born
1925 - Yogi Berra born
1926 - The General Strike ends
1929 - Burt Bacharach born
1936 - Tom Snyder born
1937 - Coronation of King George VI. Also George Carlin born
1948 - Steve Winwood born
1961 - Ving Rhames born
1962 - Emilio Estevez born
1966 - Stephen Baldwin born
1967 - The British Government gives the go-ahead to proposals to convert Stansted into an international airport.
1968 - Tony Hawk born
1969 - Kim Fields born
1971 - The Rolling Stones singer, Mick Jagger, marries his fiancee Bianca Perez Morena de Macias after a row with the media nearly halts proceedings.
1978 - Jason Biggs born
1981 - Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a republican campaign for political status to be granted to IRA prisoners.
1994 - The Labour Party leader John Smith dies in a London hospital after two serious heart attacks.
2000 - Ford workers at its Dagenham plant react with shock and anger at the news that car production is to be transferred to Germany and Spain, with the loss of 3,000jobs.
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