1801 - William Seward born
1905 - Henry Fonda born
1919 - Liberace born
1929 - The first Oscars awarded
1943 - All resistance in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw ends after 28 days of fighting.
1947 - Bob Edwards born
1953 - Pierce Brosnan born
1955 - Debra Winger and Olga Korbut born
1966 - Janet Jackson born
1968 - Four women and a man are killed when an entire corner of a new block of flats at Ronan Point in London's East End came crashing down at dawn.
1969 - Tracey Gold born
1971 - David Boreanaz born
1973 - Tori Spelling born
1974 - Israeli planes bomb seven Palestinian refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon killing at least 27 people and leaving 138 injured.
1985 - Two South Wales miners,Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland are jailed for life for the murder of taxi driver David Wilkie during the miners' strike last November.
1990 - The government again attempts to reassure the public that British beef is safe, despite growing fears over the cattle disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).
2001 - The Labour Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, punches a protester who threw an egg at him during a visit to Rhyl in north Wales.
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