1835 - Gordon Bennett founds the New York Herald
1840 - The worlds first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued
1856 - Robert E. Peary born
1856 - Sigmund Freud born
1868 - Gaston Leroux born
1895 - Rudolph Valentino born
1915 - Orson Welles born
1931 - Willie Mays born
1945 - Bob Seger born
1953 - Tony Blair born
1954 - Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, becomes the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
1955 - Tom Bergeron born
1960 - Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong-Jones marry at Westminster Abbey
1961 - George Clooney born
1966 - Ian Brady and his lover Myra Hindley have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the so-called Moors murders at Chester Assizes.
1976 - A powerful quake in north-east Italy leaving at least 60 people dead and many more buried under rubble.
1988 - Graeme Hick, Worcestershire's 21-year-old prodigy, scores 405 not out in a county championship match, the highest innings in England this century.
1994 - The Queen and France's President Francois Mitterrand formally open the Channel Tunnel during two elaborate ceremonies in France and Britain.
1997 - The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, gives the Bank of England independence from political control.
2001 - A bomb linked to the Real IRA explodes at a north London postal sorting office, the second such attack in three weeks.
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