1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe born
1919 - Judge Joseph Wapner born
1928 - Bill "C.W. McCall" Fries born
1929 - Ed Asner born
1932 - Petula Clark born
1940 - The German Luftwaffe bombs Coventry in a massive raid which lasted more than 10 hours and left much of the city devastated. Also Sam Waterston born
1945 - Frida Lyngstad born
1951 - Anti-government rebels ambush and kill 11 people in an attack on a rubber plantation in Malaya.
1977 - Princess Anne gives birth to a boy (Peter Mark Andrew Phillips), the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years.
1983 - John Le Mesurier and Yom Horn Die
1985 - Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign a deal giving Dublin a role in Northern Ireland for the first time in more than 60 years - unionists accuse Mrs Thatcher or treachery.
1998 - Britain and America have pulled back from the brink of war with Iraq after an offer to let UN weapons inspectors back into the country.
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