1900 - Relief of Mafeking
1908 - Jimmy Stewart born
1919 - George Gobel born
1936 - Anthony Zerbe born
1940 - Stan Mikita born
1944 - Joe Cocker born
1946 - Cher born
1958 - Citizens of the English town of High Wycombe witness a unique ceremony at which the mayor is weighed in public.
1959 - Bronson Pinchot born
1965 - Britain's police are to be armed with tear gas guns and grenades to be used against armed criminals or dangerous individuals.
1972 - Busta Rhymes born
1973 - Britain has sent in Royal Navy ships to protect trawlers in the disputed Icelandic 50-mile zone as the so-called "cod war" escalates.
1983 - 17 people are killed and 197 people injured in a car bomb explosion in South Africa's capital city, Pretoria.
2000 - The British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie celebrate the birth of their baby son who will be called Leo. He is the first child to be born to a serving British Prime Minister for more than 150 years and was named after Mr Blair's father.
2012 - 'Bee Gee' singer Robin Gibb dies aged 62 of liver and kidney failure.
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