1892 - Baron Von Richthofen born
1903 - Dr. Benjamin Spock born
1924 - Theodore Bikel born
1925 - Roscoe Lee Browne born
1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck born
1945 - Bianca Jagger born
1946 - Lesley Gore born
1952 - The world's first ever jet airliner begins its maiden flight from London to Johannesburg. Crowds cheered as the BOAC Comet G-ALYP took off from London airport at 1512 local time carrying 36 passengers.
1969 - About 200 students calling for educational reforms at Columbia University give up their sit-in after a supreme court judge issues a warrant for their arrest.
1972 - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson born
1975 - David Beckham born
1982 - Argentina's only cruiser, the General Belgrano, has been sunk by a British nuclear submarine in the South Atlantic.
1997 - The Labour Party wins the general election by a landslide, leaving the Conservative Party in tatters after 18 years in power.
2001 - A federal jury in the USA indicts the former chairmen of the world's two largest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christies, on charges of overcharging its customers.
2011 - US President Barack Obama announces that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been killed in an American-led operation in Pakistan.
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