1899 - The Boer war starts
1915 - The nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans
1932 - Dick Gregory born
1935 - Luciano Pavarotti born
1947 - Chris Wallace born
1950 - Susan Anton born
1964 - Quintin Hogg, a senior Conservative minister steels the show at the Conservative news conference by branding all Labour voters "bonkers".
1967 - The Naked Ape steps out. Zoologist Dr Desmond Morris stuns the world by writing about humans in the same way scientists describe animals.
1968 - Hugh Jackman born
1969 - Martie Seidel born
1970 - Kirk Cameron born
1975 - Marion Jones born
1978 - British punk rocker Sid Vicious is arrested on suspicion of murder after his girlfriend's body is found in their New York hotel room.
1984 - An IRA bomb explodes at the Grand Hotel during the Conservative Party conference in Brighton. The direct attack on the British Government killed 5 and injured 34.
1986 - Superpower talks collapse after Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev fail to agree on Star Wars.
2000 - At least 17 American sailors die and more than 40 are injured in what's thought to have been a suicide bomb attack on a US Navy destroyer in Yemen.
2002 - A car bomb outside a Bali nightclub kills 202.
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