1772 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge born
1805 - Battle of Trafalgar
1833 - Alfred Nobel born
1917 - Dizzy Gillespie born
1925 - Joyce Randolph born
1931 - Inventor Thomas Edison dies
1942 - Judge Judy Sheindlin born
1952 - The President of the Kenya African Union, Jomo Kenyatta, is arrested following the declaration of a state of emergency in the British colony of Kenya
1956 - Carrie Fisher born
1966 - Tragedy hits the Welsh village of Aberfan as a coal slag tip engulfs a school killing 144, 116 of them children.
1975 - Armed police surround a house near Dublin where kidnapped businessman Tiede Herrema is being held captive.
1976 - Jeremy Miller born
1982 - Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness make history as they become the first members of Sinn Fein to be elected to the Ulster Assembly.
2001 - A post office worker in Washington becomes the third person to be diagnosed with anthrax.
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