1885 - Writer Victor Hugo dies
1921 - Nelson Riddle born
1926 - Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith born
1928 - Bob Monkhouse born
1930 - Edward Woodward born
1934 - Pat Boone born
1937 - Morgan Freeman born
1940 - Rene Auberjonois born
1942 - Mexico declares war on the Axis
1947 - Ron Wood born
1958 - France's General Charles de Gaulle is invited back to the helm as the crisis in Algeria threatens to bring civil war to France itself.
1970 - British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, is hit in the face with an egg thrown by a Young conservative demonstrator.
1974 - Alanis Morissette born
1979 - Rhodesia formally ends nearly 90 years of white minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
1982 - Danny Zavatsky born
1985 - More than 300 people are arrested as police intercept a convoy of hippies going to Stonehenge.
1993 - Serb forces shell a football match in Bosnia killing 11 people, including four children.
2001 - The heir to the throne of Himalayan kingdom of Nepal 'Prince Dipendra', massacres the royal family before turning the gun on himself.
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