1804 - Franklin Pierce born
1859 - Billy the Kid born
1887 - Boris Karloff born
1888 - Harpo Marx born
1910 - Dr Crippen is hanged
1925 - Johnny Mandel born
1954 - Bruce Hornsby born
1960 - Phil Wrend born
1963 - Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job as US president.
He was sworn in yesterday just two hours after an assassin shot President John F Kennedy in the head.
1967 - Salli Richardson born
1978 - Birmingham nightclub 'Pollyanna's' is ordered to open its doors to black and Chinese people after a year long investigation into racism.
1984 - Almost 1,000 passengers are trapped in smoke-filled tunnels for three hours after a fire at London's busiest underground station, Oxford Circus.
1996 - A hijacked passenger jet crashes into the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel. Out of the 175 passengers and crew on board at least 100 people were killed when Flight ET961 broke up during an emergency landing 1,640 feet (500 metres) from a holiday beach on the Comoro Islands.
2002 - The Miss World contest is moved to London from Nigeria after riots by Muslim youths opposed to the show left more than 100 people dead and 500 injured in the city of Kaduna.
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