1844 - Samual Morse demonstrates the first telegraph message
1938 - Tommy Chong born
1941 - Bob Dylan born
1943 - Gary Burghoff born
1944 - Patti LaBelle born
1945 - Priscilla Presley born
1955 - Rosanne Cash born
1963 - Joe Dumars born
1968 - The President of France, Charles de Gaulle, issues a 'back me or sack me' ultimatum to striking students and workers.
1975 - A group of 80 reporters and cameramen - including nine Britons - are allowed to fly out of Saigon.
1989 - A jury at the High Court in London awards £600,000 damages to Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, against the satirical magazine Private Eye.
1999 - Lawrence Dallaglio resigns as England's rugby union captain following newspaper allegations over hard drugs.
2001 - 23 people are killed and hundreds are injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when a building collapses.
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