1727 - Thomas Gainsborough born
1885 - Otto Klemperer born
1897 - Marconi makes the first wireless transmission
1933 - Laszlo Kovacs born
1936 - Bobby Darin born
1944 - George Lucas born
1951 - Robert Zemeckis born
1952 - David Byrne born
1955 - The Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies sign a defence agrement 'Warsaw Pact' in the Polish capital, Warsaw, places all member countries under one military command.
1957 - Petrol rationing, which was in force in Britain for five months following the Suez crisis, is finally abolished.
1961 - Tim Roth born
1964 - President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev have marked the first stage in the building of the Aswan High Dam.
1965 - Jose Da Silveira born
1969 - Danny Wood and Cate Blanchett born
1991 - Winnie Mandela, the wife of anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela, is given a six-year jail term for her part in the kidnap of four youths.
2001 - Leading experts on new variant CJD, the human form of BSE or "mad cow" disease, have warned the current outbreak could get much worse. So far, 99 people have had the disease and nearly all of them have died.
2011 - Manchester City beat Stoke City to win the FA Cup, their first trophy in 35 years. Manchester United win a record 19th league title.
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