1880 - Australian bushwacker Ned Kelly is hanged
1885 - General George Patton born
1889 - Washington, Montana and the Dakotas achieve statehood
1899 - Pat O'Brien born
1904 - Alger Hiss born
1919 - The Armistice begins
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut born
1925 - Jonathan Winters born
1935 - Bibi Andersson born
1942 - Germans invade Vichy France
1951 - Marc Summers born
1954 - Thousands of elderly people take part in a rally in London calling for an increase in their pensions.
1962 - Demi Moore born
1964 - Calista Flockhart born
1965 - The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, illegally severs its links with the British Crown.
1970 - Peta Wilson born
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio born
1975 - The southern African state of Angola gains its independence from former colonial power Portugal.
1987 - A painting by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for $49m (£27m) - a world record for a work of art.
1991 - Church of England allows female priests to be ordained
1992 - The Church of England votes for women priests
2000 - 155 people die in an intense fire on board a funicular railway in the Austrian Alps, only 12 people survived.
2004 - Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in hospital in Paris, France, aged 75.
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