1910 - Jacques Cousteau born
1913 - Vince Lombardi born
1935 - Gene Wilder born
1936 - Chad Everett born
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau born
1955 - Eighty people are killed and over seventy others injured when two cars collided on the race track and crashed into the spectators' stand at Le Mans in north-west France.
1956 - Joe Montana born
1959 - The Hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell is officially launched in Southampton.
1961 - Caroline Quentin born
1968 - French student rebel leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit has arrived in Britain stirring up fears of campus unrest.
1976 - The trial of 13 mercenaries - 10 of them British - has begun in Angola with the public still in the dark over the exact charges.
1978 - Joshua Jackson born
1987 - Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrates her third general election win after beating Labour by 376 to 229 seats.
1998 - More than a million people in Sudan are facing starvation, prompting the United Nations to declare an official famine in the region.
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