1803 - Ralph W. Emerson born
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge is opened
1918 - Claude Akins born
1925 - Jeanne Crain born
1926 - Miles Davis born
1927 - Robert Ludlum born
1929 - Beverly Sills born
1934 - Composer Gustav Holst dies
1936 - Tom T. Hall born
1939 - Ian McKellen born
1943 - Leslie Uggams born
1944 - Frank Oz born
1955 - Connie Sellecca born
1961 - President John F Kennedy says the US will aim to put the first man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
1963 - Leaders of 32 African nations set up the' OAU' organisation that will give them a united voice for the first time in African history. Also Mike Myers born
1967 - Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup, beating favourites Internazionale Milan 2-1.
1969 - Anne Heche born
1975 - Lauryn Hill born
1979 - The price of milk is to go up by more than 10% to 15p a pint - three times the price it was five years ago.
1982 - Dozens of men are feared dead in the seas around the Falkland Islands after the container ship Atlantic Conveyor and the destroyer HMS Coventry were hit by Argentine missiles.
1994 - The Camelot consortium wins the contract to run Britain's first national lottery starting in November.
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