1840 - Auguste Rodin born
1918 - Jo Stafford born
1923 - The Munich Beerhall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler
1929 - Grace Kelly born
1943 - Wallace Shawn born
1944 - Al Michaels born
1945 - Marshal Tito wins Yugoslavian election
1945 - Neil Young born
1954 - New York's main immigration control centre, Ellis Island, is shut down after 62 years.
1961 - Nadia Comaneci born
1966 - David Schwimmer born
1967 - Michael Moorer born
1968 - Sammy Sosa born
1970 - Tonya Harding born
1980 - The Voyager 1 space probe has reached the ringed planet, Saturn and sent back the first vivid photographs of the planet and Ryan Gosling born
1982 - The Polish Government has freed the leader of the outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, after 11 months of internment.
1984 - It is announced that the English pound note is to disappear after more than 150 years.
1997 - The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, celebrates after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him.
2001 - The Greek authorities carry out further inquiries in the case of 12 British plane-spotters being held on spying charges.
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