1694 - French writer and philospher Voltaire born.
1785 - William Beaumont born
1898 - Rene Magritte born
1920 - Stan Musial born
1922 - Ramsey MacDonald becomes leader of the Labour Party
1927 - Joseph Campanella born
1938 - Marlo Thomas born
1941 - Juliet Mills born
1944 - Harold Ramis born
1945 - Goldie Hawn born
1965 - Björk born
1966 - Troy Aikman born
1967 - The number of animals slaughtered in the latest epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease reaches a record high of 134,000.
1969 - Ken Griffey born
1974 - Bombs devastate two central Birmingham pubs, killing 19 people and injuring over 180.
1985 - The Geneva summit ends in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system.
1979 - A mob in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, burns the US Embassy to the ground, killing a US marine.
1995 - A peace settlement for war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina is brokered in the United States.
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