1905 - Actor Henry Irving dies
1915 - Cornel Wilde born
1921 - Yves Montand born
1924 - Nipsey Russell born
1925 - Lenny Bruce and Margaret Thatcher born
1934 - Nana Mouskouri born
1941 - Paul Simon born
1943 - Italy declares war on Germany
1947 - Sammy Hagar born
1954 - Chris Chataway breaks the 5,000 metres world record by five seconds.
1957 - Chris Carter born
1959 - Marie Osmond born
1962 - Kelly Preston and Jerry Rice born
1969 - Nancy Kerrigan born
1971 - British Army engineers blow up minor border roads in Northern Ireland to crack down on IRA gun-running and Sacha Baron Cohen born
1976 - 98 die in Santa Cruz, Bolivia when a Boeing 707 crashes into a busy city street.
1980 - Ashanti born
1988 - The British Government fails to stop publication of the controversial book Spycatcher, written by a former secret service agent.
1992 - The government announces plans to close one third of Britain's deep coal mines, putting 31,000 miners out of work.
1994 - Three main loyalist paramilitary groups announce a ceasefire in Northern Ireland following the IRA announcement seven weeks ago.
2010 - Florencio Avalos, 31, becomes the first of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for 69 days to reach the surface shortly after 3am (BST).
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