1837 - Princess Victoria becomes Queen on the death of her Uncle King William IV
1863 - West Virginia becomes the 35th State of the US
1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, the man who invented the telephone, installed the first commercial phone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
1909 - Errol Flynn born
1924 - Audie Murphy and Chet Atkins born
1931 - Martin Landau born
1933 - Danny Aiello born
1942 - Brian Wilson born
1945 - Anne Murray born
1949 - Lionel Richie born
1952 - John Goodman born
1965 - Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President Ben Bella
1967 - Nicole Kidman born
1976 - Hundreds of Americans and Britons are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the US military, following the murder of the US ambassador.
1984 - The biggest exam shake-up for over 10 years is announced with O-Level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam the GCSE.
1990 - British Chancellor John Major proposes a new European currency which would circulate alongside existing national currencies.
1995 - Oil giant Shell caves in to international pressure and abandons plans to dump the Brent Spar oil rig at sea.
2012 - Journalist and broadcaster Alastair Burnet dies aged 84.
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