1894 - Tower Bridge opens in London
1917 - Lena Horne born
1919 - Susan Hayward born
1927 - The first Ryder Cup golf tournement is held - the US win
1934 - Hitler purges Nazi party in the Night of the long knieves
1934 - Harry Blackstone born
1950 - Leonard Whiting born
1954 - Millions of people turn to look at the darkening skies as a total eclipse of the sun spreads from America through Europe and on to Asia.
1966 - Mike Tyson born
1969 - Four million people face starvation when the Nigerian government bans night flights of food by the Red Cross.
1971 - Three Russian cosmonauts are found dead in their Soyuz 11 space capsule after it made what looked like a perfect landing in Kazakhstan.
1975 - Ralf Schumacher born
1985 - All 39 Americans being held captive by the Shia Muslim Amal militia in Lebanon are released, after almost three weeks in captivity. Also Michael Phelps born
1992 - Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes her place in the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven.
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