1631 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. The Taj Mahal was built to serve as her tomb.
1882 - Igor Stravinsky born
1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York.
1898 - M.C. Escher born
1904 - Ralph Bellamy born
1919 - Gene De Paul born
1940 - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union
1943 - Newt Gingrich born
1945 - Art Bell born
1946 - Barry Manilow born
1951 - Joe Piscopo born
1961 - Principal dancer of the Kirov Ballet, Rudolf Nureyev, breaks free from Russian embassy guards at a Paris airport and requests asylum in France.
1964 - The first purpose-built floating trade fair docks at Tilbury in London with 22,000 samples of Japanese goods on board.
1965 - Dan Jansen born
1970 - The bodies of the 'Babes in the wood' Susan Blatchford, aged 11, and Gary Hanlon, aged 12, are found in a shallow grave in a wood at Waltham Abbey in Essex.
1974 - An IRA bomb has explodes at the Houses of Parliament, causing extensive damage and injuring 11 people.
1980 - The locations for the first US nuclear cruise missiles to be stored on British soil are revealed by the government. Secretary of State for Defence Francis Pym told the House of Commons the 160 missiles would be located at RAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, and the disused RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire. Also Venus Williams born
1983 - Lee Ryan born
2001 - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland 'Cardinal Thomas Winning', dies suddenly at his Glasgow home after suffering his second heart attack in 10 days.
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