1879 - Will Rogers born
1916 - Walter Cronkite born
1918 - Art Carney born
1919 - Martin Balsam born
1930 - Doris Roberts born
1937 - Loretta Swit born
1942 - Rommel goes on the run at El Alamein. The German army in North Africa is in full retreat, after suffering a comprehensive defeat in Egypt at the hands of the 8th Army under General Bernard Montgomery.
1946 - Laura W. Bush born
1947 - Composer Felix Mendelssohn dies
1950 - Markie Post born
1956 - Soviet troops pour into the city of Budapest in a massive dawn offensive in repsonse to a national uprising led by Prime Minister Imre Nagy.
1962 - Jeff Probst and Ralph Macchio born
1969 - Matthew McConaughey born
1970 - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs born
1974 - Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died.
(Her conviction was quashed 18 years later)
1979 - Militant Islamic students in Iran storm the US embassy in Tehran taking 90 people hostage.
1980 - Former Hollywood actor and Republican Ronald Reagan wins the US presidential elections by a huge majority.
1987 - Land's End in Cornwall is sold for nearly £7m to the property tycoon, Peter de Savary.
1992 - Democrat Bill Clinton has won the presidential election to become the 42nd United States president and the first in US history born after World War II.
1995 - The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
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