1904 - Fats Waller born
1916 - Harold Robbins born
1917 - Dennis Day and Raymond Burr born
1923 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1924 - Peggy Cass born
1927 - Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic
1950 - Two people die and more are injured as violent storms and a tornado sweep through counties around London.
1958 - Trunk dialling heralds cheaper calls
1961 - Martial law is imposed in the town of Montgomery, Alabama, after violent racial clashes.
1966 - American Cassius Clay beats Britain's Henry Cooper in the sixth round at the Arsenal football ground, North London.
1972 - Notorious B.I.G. born
1974 - Fairuza Balk born
1991 - Rajiv Gandhi, the former Indian prime minister, is assassinated in a bomb attack in Tamil Nadu.
2011 - Bernard Hopkins, 46, becomes the oldest man to win a boxing world title when he defeated Canadian Jean Pascal by unanimous decision to claim the WBC and IBO light-heavyweight belts.
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