1891 - Fanny Brice born
1921 - Bill Mauldin born
1947 - Richard Dreyfuss born
1948 - Kate Jackson born
1971 - Winona Ryder born
1975 - General Franco's dictatorship is effectively ended with the announcement heir designate Prince Carlos will take over as provisional head of state.
1976 - The Duchess of Kent opens the Selby coalfield which is the first to be developed in 70 years.
1980 - Ben Foster born
1982 - Lindy Chamberlain is found guilty of the murder of her nine-week-old daughter after a jury dismisses her claim that a dingo took the baby.
1998 - The long-awaited report by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission accuses leading figures from across the political spectrum of human rights violations.
1999 - A massive cyclone sweeps through the state of Orissa in eastern India, killing an unknown number of people and leaving thousands homeless.
2003 - The Conservative Party leader, Iain Duncan Smith, resigns after failing to win the backing of his fellow MPs.
2011 - The first and last presenter of 'Top of the Pops' Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile, OBE, KCSG dies aged 84.
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