1857 - Sir Edward Elgar born
1890 - Hedda Hopper born
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller born
1937 - Sally Kellerman born
1941 - Charlie Watts born
1941 - Stacy Keach born
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch born
1948 - Jerry Mathers born
1953 - Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.
1955 - Dana Carvey born
1966 - The United States lands a spacecraft 'Surveyor 1' on the Moon on its first try, but four months behind the Soviet Union.
1971 - Joel Tobeck born
1972 - Wayne Brady born
1976 - Jockey Lester Piggott wins the Epsom Derby for a record seventh time, riding the French-trained Emperie.
1979 - The Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland.
1985 - English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
1994 - Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.
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