1892 - J. Paul Getty born
1911 - Stan Kenton born
1918 - Jeff Chandler born
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser born
1933 - Tim Conway born
1942 - Dave Clark born
1943 - Jazz pianist Fats Waller dies
1949 - Don Johnson born
1958 - British stars of the big screen take part in a fund-raising football match for the family of America actor Bonar Colleano, killed in a car crash earlier this year.
1961 - Nick Beggs born
1974 - British drivers are asked to adhere to reduced speed limits from midnight tonight as the government tries to save fuel.
1982 - Scenes of jubilation as the gates isolating the people of Gibraltar from Spain are to opened for the first time in 13 years.
1993 - The British and Irish prime ministers John Major and Albert Reynolds sign the historic Joint Declaration for Peace on the steps of Downing street.
1994 - Former 800m Commonwealth gold-medallist Diane Modahl is found guilty of taking a banned drug - but is cleared a year later on appeal.
2004 - The Home Secretary, David Blunkett, resigns after an email implicates him in using his position to grant favours to his ex-lover.
2010 - Blake Edwards, film director and husband of Julie Andrews dies aged 88.
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