1911 - Mahalia Jackson born
1914 - Jackie Coogan born
1942 - Bob Hoskins born
1947 - Jaclyn Smith, Pat Sajak born and Hillary Rodham Clinton born
1951 - The Conservatives defeat Labour in the general election by a small majority making Winston Churchill prime minister for the second time.
1954 - Lauren Tewes born
1956 - The Hungarian Prime Minister, Imre Nagy, appeals for calm as demonstrators battle with Soviet troops.
1959 - The Soviet Union reveals the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.
1962 - Cary Elwes born
1979 - The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, is "accidentally" shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu.
1994 - At a ceremony in the desert witnessed by US President Clinton, Jordan and Israel sign a peace agreement ending 46 years of war.
2000 - The long awaited report into the spread of BSE or "mad cow disease" and its fatal human equivalent, vCJD, criticises officials, scientists and government ministers.
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