1865 - Former Prime Minister Lord Palmerston dies
1900 - Lotte Lenya born
1919 - Anita O'Day born
1921 - Jesse Helms born
1923 - Melina Mercouri born
1926 - Chuck Berry born
1927 - George C. Scott born
1935 - Peter Boyle born
1938 - Dawn Wells born
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald and Mike Ditka born
1947 - Laura Nyro born
1951 - Pam Dawber born
1956 - Martina Navratilova born
1960 - Jean-Claude Van Damme born
1961 - Wynton Marsalis born
1963 - A Scottish Earl, Lord Home, wins a bitter contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party to become Britain's new prime minister.
1967 - The Soviet Union sends a space probe beneath the cloud cover around Venus for the first time.
1976 - The funeral of Mafia boss Carlo Gambino takes place in New York.
1989 - The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems.
2000 - Liz Hurley has been greeted by protesters at the Los Angeles premiere of her new film Bedazzled.
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