1870 - Charles Dickens dies
1892 - Cole Porter born
1910 - Robert Cummings born
1915 - Les Paul born
1934 - Jackie Mason born
1940 - Dick Vitale born
1958 - The Queen opens an extended airport at Gatwick, south of London, modernised at a cost of £7m.
1961 - Michael J. Fox born
1963 - Johnny Depp born
1970 - King Hussein of Jordan escapes an assassination attempt after gunmen open fire on his motorcade as it drives near his summer palace.
1975 - The first live transmission from the House of Commons has been broadcast by BBC Radio and commercial stations.
1981 - Natalie Portman born
1983 - Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party has won a landslide second term election victory, taking 397 seats to Labour's 209.
1995 - Andrew Richards is imprisoned for life for the attempted rape of another man in the first case of its kind in Britain.
2011 - South Sudan gains it's independence and becomes a sovereign nation.
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