1878 - The Edison Electric Light company if founded
1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith born
1917 - Arthur Schlesinger born
1920 - Mario Puzo born
1924 - Lee Iacocca born
1937 - Linda Lavin born
1942 - Penny Marshall born
1945 - Jim Palmer born
1946 - Richard Carpenter born
1959 - Emeril Lagasse born
1959 - Sarah Ferguson born
1964 - News of the sudden departure of flamboyant Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev comes as a surprise to the West.
1969 - Americans take part in peace initiatives across the United States to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam and Vanessa Marcil born
1976 - Two men from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) are jailed for 35 years in connection with the murders of members of the Miami Showband.
1987 - The Queen accepts the resignation of the Governor-General of Fiji at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Vancouver.
1999 - The Metropolitan Police announces a huge out-of-court settlement to Winston Silcott, wrongly accused over the murder of a policeman during riots in north London in 1985.
2003 - China succeeds in sending its first manned spacecraft into orbit, making it only the third country ever to send a human into space.
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