1836 - William Gilbert born
1899 - Eugene Ormandy born
1908 - Imogene Coca born
1923 - The first American in space Alan B Shepard born
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro born
1942 - Linda Evans born
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins born
1962 - Kirk Lee Hammett born
1967 - A ban on the movement of farm animals is imposed across the whole of England and Wales in an attempt to curb the spread of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
1968 - Owen Wilson born
1978 - The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, are found in Guyana in South America, following the mass suicide of members of the People's Temple Christian Church.
1987 - 31 people die after a fire at King's Cross station in central London.
1989 - More than 50,000 people take to the streets of Sofia in Bulgaria demanding political reform.
1991 - Church envoy Terry Waite is freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.
2000 - The film world celebrates the celebrity wedding of the year in New York, as Hollywood leading man Michael Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones.
2003 - The United States President, George Bush, arrives in Britain for the first full state visit by an American president amid some of the tightest security London has ever seen.
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