1908 - Alistair Cooke born
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy born
1926 - Kaye Ballard born
1927 - Estelle Parsons born
1932 - Richard Dawson born
1939 - Dick Smothers born
1943 - Veronica Hamel born
1945 - Twenty of Germany's Nazi leaders go on trial in the German city of Nuremberg charged with war crimes.
1946 - Duane Allman born
1951 - More than 1,000 families of British servicemen begin moving out of the Suez Canal Zone town of Ismailia.
1956 - Bo Derek born
1965 - Mike Diamond born
1975 - General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an authoritarian hand for 39 years, dies at the age of 82.
1978 - MP Jeremy Thorpe is accused in court of plotting to kill his former homosexual lover and dispose of the body.
1986 - Police have begin a search for more victims of the Moors murderers, after receiving new information from Myra Hindley.
1990 - The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, fails to win outright victory in her battle against former Defence Minister Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
1992 - A fierce fire rages through Windsor Castle in Berkshire, threatening one of the world's greatest collections of art.
1995 - Diana, Princess of Wales, speakes openly for the first time about her separation from the Prince of Wales in a frank interview for the BBC's Panorama programme.
2003 - 32 people are killed and more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
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