1837 - Wild Bill Hickok born
1840 - Violinst Niccolo Paganini dies
1878 - Isadora Duncan born
1894 - Dashiell Hammett born
1911 - Hubert H. Humphrey and Vincent Price born
1912 - Sam Snead born
1922 - Christopher Lee born
1923 - Henry Kissinger born
1936 - Louis Gossett born
1955 - Anthony Eden's Conservatives win the general election with a clear majority, ending a five-year political stalemate.
1963 - Jomo Kenyatta is certain to become prime minister after his party, Kenya African Nation Union, won the country's first general election.
1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, founder of modern India and its current prime minister, dies suddenly at the age of 74.
1964 - Adam Carolla born
1965 - Todd Bridges born
1969 - Jeremy Mayfield born
1970 - Joseph Fiennes born
1971 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes born
1975 - Andre 3000 born
1980 - The jury at the inquest of Blair Peach, the London teacher who died in a demonstration last year, returns a verdict of misadventure.
1994 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn flies back to his native Russia after 20 years living in exile.
2000 - Scottish farmers who accidentally planted genetically modified seeds say they will fight for compensation.
2011 - Actor Jeff Conaway (Kenickie in the film Grease) dies aged 60 following a drug induced coma.
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