1784 - The 12th President of the U.S. and opponent of slavery Zachary Taylor is born.
1853 - Bat Masterson born
1868 - Scott Joplin born
1888 - Dale Carnegie born
1925 - William F. Buckley born
1945 - Quisling is executed
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F Kennedy, is himself shot dead in a Dallas police station.
1974 - Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago. Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Robert Hunter, Noel McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker were accused of the murder of the youngest victim of the attacks.
1978 - Katherine Heigl born
1985 - The hijacking of an EgyptAir passenger jet to Malta ends in violence and further bloodshed after the plane was stormed by Egyptian commandoes. Two crew members and 59 of the 90 passengers were killed.
1989 - The entire leadership of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigns to make way for democratic changes.
1991 - Freddie Mercury dies aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
1998 - The government unveils its plans to abolish the rights of 700 hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.
2005 - Round-the-clock drinking in England and Wales is now a reality after new licensing laws came in force at midnight.
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