1911 - Kenneth Patchen born
1913 - Archie Moore born
1925 - Dick Van Dyke born
1927 - Christopher Plummer born
1941 - John Davidson born
1948 - Ted Nugent born
1958 - The search for a small bushy-tailed monkey fired into space in the nose cone of a Jupiter rocket is called off. The squirrel monkey named Gordo survived a 300-mile journey into space and then travelled more than 1,500 miles in the rocket until it dropped in the South Atlantic.
1967 - Jamie Foxx born
1972 - More than 300 British victims of the Thalidomide drug are offered a compensation deal said to be worth £11.85m.
1973 - Christie Clark born
1975 - Tom DeLonge born
1981 - Military rulers in Poland declare a state of emergency after imposing martial law and placing leaders of the Solidarity trade union under arrest.
1995 - Hundreds of black and white youths take to the streets of Brixton, in south London attacking police, ransacking shops and burning cars after the death of a black man in police custody.
2001 - A group of gunmen break through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
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