1874 - G.K. Chesterton born
1903 - Bob Hope born
1917 - John F. Kennedy born
1932 - Paul Erlich born
1939 - Al Unser born
1947 - Anthony Geary born
1953 - New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Also Danny Elfman born.
1956 - LaToya Jackson born
1958 - Annette Bening born
1959 - Adrian Paul born
1961 - Melissa Etheridge born
1967 - Noel Gallagher born
1968 - Manchester United become the first English club to win the European Cup beating Portuguese side Benfica by four goals to one.
1972 - Three Japanese gunmen open fire at Lod International Airport in Israel, killing 26 people and injuring dozens more.
1975 - Melanie Janine Brown born
1982 - Pope John Paul II visits Canterbury Cathedral, the first pontiff ever to do so.
1984 - Police use riot gear for the first time since the miners' strike began three before. Forming the biggest picket of the strike so far, at least 5,000 miners gathered outside Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield.
1985 - Thirty-nine Juventus fans are crushed to death during rioting at the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus in Brussels.
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