1667 - Author of Gullivers Travels Jonathan Swift born
1835 - Mark Twain born
1874 - Winston Churchill born
1900 - Poet and playwrite Oscar Wilde dies
1912 - Gordon Parks born
1923 - Efrem Zimbalist born
1924 - Shirley Chisholm born
1926 - Richard Crenna born
1929 - Dick Clark born
1930 - G. Gordon Liddy born
1936 - Abbie Hoffman born
1937 - Robert Guillaume born
1947 - David Mamet born
1952 - Mandy Patinkin born
1953 - Shuggie Otis born
1954 - The Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, celebrates his 80th birthday in a day of ceremonies and tributes to his remarkable career.
1955 - Billy Idol born
1962 - Bo Jackson born
1965 - Ben Stiller born
1968 - The Trade Descriptions Act comes into effect.
1978 - Clay Aiken born
1982 - A letter bomb explodes inside 10 Downing Street, the British Prime Minister's London residence.
1994 - Almost 1,000 people are forced to abandon the luxury cruise ship 'The Achille Lauro' in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire.
1995 - The people of Northern Ireland give a rapturous welcome to President Bill Clinton, the first serving US president to visit their country.
1999 - The Government announces that the beef-on-the-bone ban will be lifted next month.
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