1897 - Frank Capra born
1911 - Composer Gustav Mahler dies
1912 - Perry Como born
1919 - Margot Fonteyn born
1920 - Pope John Paul II born
1930 - Pernell Roberts born
1931 - Robert Morse born
1934 - Dwayne Hickman born
1937 - Brooks Robinson born
1944 - British and Polish forces take control of Monte Cassino, the ancient Italian monastery that was a symbol of German resistance
1946 - Reggie Jackson born
1950 - Almost exactly a year after signing the North Atlantic Treaty, 12 nations have agreed a permanent organisation for the defence of the United States and Europe.
1952 - George Strait born
1955 - Chow Yun-Fat born
1964 - Scores of youths are given prison sentences following a Whitsun weekend of violent clashes between gangs of Mods and Rockers at a number of resorts on the south coast of England.
1970 - Tina Fey born
1972 - The Duke of Windsor was not well enough to attend tea with the Queen when she came to visit his home in Paris this afternoon.
1991 - Britain's first astronaut, 27-year-old Helen Sharman from Sheffield, has blasts into orbit. The Soviet Soyuz TM-12 space capsule made a textbook launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan at 1350 BST carrying Miss Sharman and fellow cosmonauts Anatoly Artebartsky and Sergei Krikalyov.
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