1890 - Charles de Gaulle born
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael born
1900 - Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan fame dies
1913 - Benjamin Britten born
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield born
1932 - Robert Vaughn born
1943 - Billie Jean King born
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis born
1961 - Mariel Hemingway born
1963 - The President of the United States has been assassinated by a gunman in Dallas, Texas. John F Kennedy was hit in the head and throat when three shots were fired at his open-topped car.
1971 - Five teenagers and their female instructor die in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.
1979 - Scott Robinson born
1984 - Scarlett Johansson born
1990 - It is announced that Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections.
1995 - Rosemary West is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
1997 - Michael Hutchence, the Australian rock star and front man of INXS, the country's most successful band, is found dead in an hotel room in Sydney aged 37.
2003 - England win the Rugby World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in the final.
2005 - Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU), is sworn in as Germany's first woman chancellor at a ceremony in the country's parliament.
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