1849 - Composer Chopin dies
1893 - Spring Byington born
1905 - Jean Arthur born
1915 - Arthur Miller born
1918 - Rita Hayworth born
1920 - Montgomery Clift born
1921 - Tom Poston born
1930 - Jimmy Breslin born
1938 - Evel Knievel born
1948 - George Wendt and Margot Kidder born
1950 - Howard Rollins born
1956 - The Queen opens the world's first full-scale nuclear power station, at Calder Hall in Cumberland
1958 - Alan Jackson born
1963 - Norm MacDonald born
1968 - Two black Americans make history at the Mexico Olympics with a silent protest against racial discrimination.
1971 - Chris Kirkpatrick born
1972 - Eminem and Wyclef Jean born
1978 - Public pressure leads ministers to reduce the number of grey seals to be culled in Scotland.
1980 - The Queen makes the first state visit to the Vatican by a British monarch and is received by the Pope and Nick Cannon born
1989 - San Francisco hit by a powerful earthquake. The final death toll of 63 was well below the 300 expected deaths. Over 3,500 people were injured and 100,000 buildings damaged
2000 - Four people are killed when a high speed passenger train derails in Hatfield, just north of London.
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