1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson born
1856 - Louis Brandeis born
1871 - Henry Stanley finds Dr Livingstone
1911 - Andrew Bonar Law becomes leader of the Tory Party
1915 - Nathaniel Benchley born
1920 - The first session of the League of Nations is convened
1922 - Oskar Werner born
1938 - Jean Seberg born
1945 - Charles de Gaulle elected president of France
1954 - Chris Noth born
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg born
1969 - Britain's first live quintuplets born this century are said to be making satisfactory progress at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London.
1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
1979 - The Times newspaper is published for the first time in nearly a year.
1981 - Rachel Bilson born
1985 - Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia killing 23,000 people
1995 - An 18-year-old student is placed on a life-support machine after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party.
2010 - Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is freed by the country's military rulers after being under house arrest for seven years.
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