1817 - Mississippi becomes the 20th State of the US
1830 - South American revolutionary hero Simon Bolivar dies.
1830 - Emily Dickinson born
1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded
1902 - The Sawan Dam is completed
1911 - Chet Huntley born
1914 - Dorothy Lamour born
1952 - Susan Dey born
1960 - Kenneth Branagh born
1961 - Albert Luthuli, leader of the banned African National Congress, appeals for racial equality in South Africa after accepting the Nobel peace prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.
1979 - Stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplishes a "death-defying" motorcycle leap, crossing an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct, on a 400cc motorcycle.
1981 - It is announced that a mysterious epidemic, discovered in homosexual men, is causing increasing concern in the United States.
1988 - 25,000 people die and a further 500,000 are left homeless after the devastating earthquake ripped through Armenia.
1990 - The first of the hostages held in the Gulf for four-and-a-half months arrive in Britain after their release by Saddam Hussein.
2003 - The Court of Appeal overturns the conviction of Angela Cannings, jailed for life for the murder of her two baby sons.
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