1812 - Robert Browning born
1833 - Johannes Brahms born
1840 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky born
1885 - Gabby Hayes born
1901 - Gary Cooper born
1919 - Eva Peron born
1922 - Darren McGavin born
1931 - Teresa Brewer born
1933 - Johnny Unitas born
1945 - Germany signs an unconditional surrender bringing to an end six years of war in Europe, according to reports from France.
1950 - Tim Russert born
1956 - The Health Minister, RH Turton, rejects calls for a government campaign against smoking, saying no ill-effects have actually been proven.
1965 - White voters in the African colony of Rhodesia overwhelmingly back Prime Minister Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front which is demanding independence from the UK.
1976 - Italy's worst ever earthquake kills more than 550 people and left 80,000 homeless.
2001 - Thousands of people turn out to greet Pope John Paul II on his historic visit to Syria. Also the government says it will press ahead with the slaughter of more than 1,000 cattle on two farms near Exmoor, even though there is no sign of foot-and-mouth disease.
2011 - Golfing legend Seve Ballesteros dies aged 54
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