1871 - Stephen Crane born
1935 - Gary Player born
1942 - Larry Flynt born
1951 - Dan Peek born
1957 - Lyle Lovett born
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela born
1966 - At least eight people are killed including an American officer when Viet Cong artillery shells the South Vietnamese capital Saigon.
1970 - A fire at a nightclub in France kills 142 people, most of them teenagers.
1972 - Jenny McCarthy born
1973 - Aishwarya Rai born
1981 - LaTavia Roberson born
1986 - A catastrophic fire at a chemicals factory near Basle, Switzerland, sends tons of toxic chemicals into the river Rhine, turning it red.
1984 - Rioting breaks out in parts of India following yesterday's assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
1990 - The UK's deputy Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns after disagreements over the government's Europe policy.
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