1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven born
1775 - Jane Austen born
1866 - Wassily Kandinsky born
1899 - Noel Coward born
1901 - Margaret Mead born
1916 - Rasputin is murdered
1917 - Arthur C. Clarke born
1939 - Liv Ullmann born
1941 - Lesley Stahl born
1943 - Steven Bochco born
1946 - Benny Andersson born
1949 - Billy Gibbons born
1955 - Her Majesty inaugurates "The Queen's Building", part of the new central terminal area built to accommodate increasing numbers of air passengers at London Airport (now Heathrow).
1962 - William "Refrigerator" Perry born
1963 - Benjamin Bratt born
1969 - MPs vote by a big majority for the permanent abolition of the death penalty for murder.
1971 - Michael McCary born
1977 - The Queen unveils the new underground link from central London to Heathrow - the first from a capital city to its major airport.
1984 - Mikhail Gorbachev, the man widely tipped as the next leader of the Soviet Union, holds five hours of talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
2001 - Thousands of countryside campaigners are on the streets of Edinburgh in the largest demonstration of its kind ever witnessed in Scotland.
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