1848 - Paul Gauguin born
1909 - Jessica Tandy born
1917 - Dean Martin born
1929 - Margaret Bondfield becomes Britains first female minster
1935 - Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
1940 - Tom Jones born
1942 - The United States routs the Japanese Navy in a major three-day battle over a remote military base at Midway Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1946 - Jenny Jones born
1952 - Liam Neeson born
1958 - Prince born
1972 - Karl Urban born
1975 - Allen Iverson born
1977 - More than one million people line the streets of London as the Queen marks the start of her silver jubilee.
1981 - Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital for fear it would be used to make atom bombs. Also Larisa Oleynik and Anna Kournikova born
1990 - France, West Germany and Italy lift a ban on British beef-on-the-bone after reaching a deal in Brussels.
2000 - The UK prime minister is heckled and criticised by Women's Institute members as he gives a speech at their conference.
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